A POWER struggle that threatened to tear cricket apart in Zimbabwe this year -- courting an unprecedented ban on the country by the International Cricket Council (ICC) -- evokes horrific memories of the dispute of 15 years ago when deep cracks, serious mistrust and underlying agendas exploded into the public view for the first time.
What had previously existed only as murmurs of discontentment within cliques over contracts, team selection and managerial issues would blow up into a bitter feud of gigantic proportions in 2004 -- the axing of young black player Stuart Matsikenyeri from the national team's line-up only a convenient scapegoat for a time bomb that had been waiting to go off.
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