Cricket New Zealand are reportedly looking to again reschedule their Future Tours Programme tour of Zimbabwe, originally scheduled for June 2009 before being initially moved to June 2010, citing "security and health" issues. Alternatively, they're prepared to play the series on neutral territory, according to their CEO Justin Vaughan:
"It is clear from our recent discussions that the government's assessment of the security situation in Zimbabwe has not changed from that of a year ago, when the scheduled tour was postponed. We have a possible window for the rescheduling of the tour next year [2011] in May/June. The other option is that we look at playing the scheduled tour in a neutral venue."
Zimbabwe & Zimbabwe XI are already slated to play Ireland and Scotland on neutral ground later this year for Intercontinental Cup matches and ODIs against Ireland, so there's precedent for this. I've already covered my thoughts on CNZ's approach to this issue in a previous article - I'll limit myself here to saying that they seem to have all the backbone of their emblem.
Cricinfo - New Zealand pull out of Zimbabwe tour
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