Boycotting the Zimbabwe Tour - Right or Wrong?

For me, this is a real ’sitting on the fence’ argument, because I can see both sides of the story and I think they have equal merit.

On one hand, I think it is the right thing to do to be seen as not supporting a terrible regime in Zimbabwe. If we did go over, then it sends a message that we don’t care about anything else going on in the country, we just want to play cricket and that we condone the atrocious way that the government in power treats its citizens.

On the other hand though, sport has always been a great medium for change in countries. If we did go over, the people who are so oppressed in Zimbabwe would definately get a boost and this may spur on a time of uprising and (hopefully) peaceful protest. I can see how by not going, we are taking away something that the Zimbabwe people have been looking forward to for some time.

All in all however, I think that the government did the right thing in banning the cricket side from going.

What do you think?