Pandemic extremely hard on Zimbabwe Cricket, admits Brendan Taylor

While the rest of the sporting world has been put on an unprecedented hiatus, the effect of the pandemic has been rather harsh on Zimbabwe cricket. The team was suspended by the ICC in July last year and were reinstated only in October. According to Brendan Taylor, the coronavirus outbreak led to the disruption of a fairly busy international calendar for Zimbabwe. They began the year 2020 with a home Test series against Sri Lanka and played a full tour of Bangladesh following that. The team also had fixtures against Ireland, Afghanistan, Australia, India and the Netherlands lined up. 

“But there are people out there losing their lives and their loved ones to this terrible virus, so at the end of the cricket is not so important anymore, is it? I think it’s a time where as players we can be a little more proactive, setting up GoFundMe pages trying to help the old, the homeless, and that’s a big issue in our country,” he said.