Minister Langa, stop the rot at Zimbabwe Cricket

On Sunday, Zimbabwe’s domestic cricket competition, which is meant to help local players prepare for next year’s ICC World Twenty20 competition in Bangladesh, was thrown into turmoil after national team players boycotted domestic cricket matches over unpaid salaries.

Just on Friday, the cricketers had threatened to go on strike following delays in the payment of their salaries and had given their board a deadline of Sunday to pay up. It was learnt that players on national contracts had not received payments for the last four months, while dues to players on domestic contracts had been delayed by two months.

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