Zimbabwean cricket is in a horrible place.
Mugabe is still doing his Stalin impression.
Sean Ervine is playing for West Australia.
Henry Olonga is giving motivational speeches.
And the average age of their playing list is foetus.
But as horrible as all that is, there is something worse, former middle order player Mark Vermeulen has burnt down Harare stadium.
Somehow I missed this, as it happened in 2006. but now its hitting the courts, therefore the news, and then me.
Poor Vermeulen has never been the same since the Indians, playing outside the spirit of the game, hit him in the head with a cricket ball, a small leather and cork combination that hurts like a motherfu(c)ker.
Irfan Pathan, the scary medium pace bowler, ruined Vermuelens life when he hit him in the head during a meaningless one dayer at the Gabba.
Since then he has had mental problems, epilepsy and arson related court dramas.
All of these problems are because of India and One day Cricket.
So it goes without saying that both India and One Day cricket should be banned immedialey.
I mean for all Australia’s sledging, they don’t cause players to burn down stadiums.
Vermeulen is pretty much my age, well according to here he is 27, http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/current/player/55822.html 28 and here 29, but roughly my age, so his mental breakdown from cricket is tragic.
A real cricket tragic perhaps.
As if Zimbabwe didn’t have enough bad press.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"
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