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September 24, 2005Posted on 09/24/2005 in Zimbabwe cricket
Playing with symbols
Peter Roebuck profiles Waddington Mwayenga - who he calls a "likeable, determined, polite, bright and athletic lad" - and goes on to lament the deeper problem surrounding cricket in Zimbabwe.
Mwayenga might have enjoyed a fairly impressive debut Test but the root of the problem persists. Roebuck writes:
What was it all about, all that fighting and posturing? ... Complacency amongst whites. Revenge amongst an angry and self-serving bunch of black administrators. Two rotten emotions that can destroy this continent as they are destroying Zimbabwean cricket. Two self-indulgences Africa cannot afford. Two wretched outlooks calculated to crush youthful idealism.
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