Campbell insulted by Scotland snub

Zimbabwe are smarting over the British government's advice to Scotland that
they should not travel to Harare for their Inter-Continental Cup fixture in
October.

Campbell said: "We have 10 Englishmen playing cricket and coaching in
Zimbabwe, including our national coach Alan Butcher, and apart from anything
else the decision is an insult to them."

But in a cautiously worded statement Bvute said that sport was a great
healer and "strained relations will eventually be restored for the common
good".

Those strained relations are primarily with England, Australia and New
Zealand, while Zimbabwe gets its main (and majority) support from India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and to some extent South Africa and West
Indies, helping to maintain their status as a full ICC member.

After consultations with the International Cricket Council and with Indian
and Sri Lankan authorities in June during a triangular series, it was agreed
that Zimbabwe could make a return to Test

cricket next May or June.

That series could be against Bangladesh in Harare and Bulawayo and would end
Zimbabwe's six-year Test exile.