And so the cricket tour that never should have been looks to be off as Mugabe's insane regime bans the BBC and other journalists from entering the country. I really don't understand why the ICC has pushed for his tour to go ahead. Mugabe has sacked nearly all of the Zimbabwe team and replaced them players who are supportive of (or at least not demonstrating against) his totalitarian regime, and yet the ICC is still willing to give these joke matches first class status. The ICC has been spineless for far too long, it's about time that Zimbabwe were dropped from the international cricket roster. The England team should never have been pushed into this situation, it is only because of the ECB's perilous financial situation, coupled with threats from the ICC about heavy fines, that the tour ever looked to start at all. The whole thing has been an embarassing shambles, thankfully it seems to be all over.