Cricketers Threaten Legal Action,  Series Boycott Over Unpaid Allowances, Salaries

Cricket players have written to Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) demanding their outstanding salaries, allowances, match fees and bonuses. They have threatened legal action as well as a boycott of the triangular series involving Australia and Pakistan. The series is scheduled for July. A letter written to ZC by the players’ lawyer Gerald Mlotshwa reads,

Each of our clients demands written undertaking, on or before 12 noon, Wednesday, May 16, 2018, from Zimbabwe Cricket as to precisely when amounts due and payable to them shall be paid in full.

Failure to do so will, apart from our clients pursuing such legal remedies as may be available to them, place into serious jeopardy the upcoming triangular series in July 2018. In this latter respect, we may consider advising our clients and other creditors, of the necessity, and desirability, of taking such corrective action, as creditors of Zimbabwe Cricket, including the placement of the organisation under judicial management or the equivalent thereof.

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