 Australian tour off after Zimbabwe spurns neutral venue offer
15th May 2007 13:55 IST
Agencies
The proposed ODI series between Australia and Zimbabwe stood cancelled after the African nation rejected the offer to play at a neutral venue.
According to an Australian Associated Press (AAP) report, Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland spoke to his Zimbabwean counterpart Ozias Bvute on the possibility of playing the series at a neutral venue after the Australian government banned its cricketers from travelling to Zimbabwe in protest against the Robert Mugabe regime there.
Bvtue, however, shot down the proposal.
"Mr. Bvute made it very clear that playing the series at a neutral venue was not a possibility. We can now say definitely that the series will not be happening inside or outside Zimbabwe," a CA spokesman said in Melbourne.
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