Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka postpone tour

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Posted to the web: 28/02/2009 13:52:51
ZIMBABWE'S cricket tour to Sri Lanka has been moved from March to the second half of the year.

Broadcasting house Ten Sports, which holds the rights for both Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe Cricket, requested that because they have also committed to showing the South Africa-Australia and West Indies-England series during the time Zimbabwe would otherwise have toured, the tour be delayed by a couple of months.

Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) Managing Director Ozias Bvute and his Sri Lanka counterpart Duleep Mendis then agreed to move the tour to the second half of the year.

They discussed the issue on the sidelines of the International Cricket Council Chief Executives’ Committee meeting which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Given that the postponement of the Zimbabwe tour to Sri Lanka comes so soon after the postponement to June next year of the incoming tour by New Zealand which was scheduled for July this year, there are fears that Zimbabwe may be starved of international action.

However, ZC spokesman Lovemore Banda said there is no need for the concern as they have a replacement fixture.

“During the period we were supposed to host the Black Caps, we will now have a triangular series involving India and one other side which we will reveal once we have finalised discussions,” he revealed.

“After that tri-nation tournament, it will be August and time to host Bangladesh and then tour Sri Lanka or, depending on how the time-frames would be like then, tour Sri Lanka and then return to host the Tigers,” Banda pointed out.
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