Striking Zimbabwe cricketers hope for solution

Zimbabwe’s unpaid and frustrated cricketers will have a second meeting with their board chairman to try to end a two-month strike that has already caused the cancellation of Afghanistan’s first overseas tour.

Captain Brendan Taylor told The Associated Press on Tuesday that players met with Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka over the weekend and will sit down again on Wednesday in an attempt to “resolve the current crisis and give cricket a lifeline.”

“We feel this has gone on for too long and in the process we have lost lots of valuable practice time,” Taylor said. “(We) would want to get over it and concentrate on the core business, which is playing cricket, especially considering that we have the World T20 coming up soon.”