Zimbabwe's Black Decade
"Admittedly, Zimbabwe had some world class players back then, with Andy Flower at one time being ranked as the leading Test batsman in the world, and Streak was constantly ranked among the top bowlers in the world. "But did the team produce the kind of result that represent greatness, or their success has been a myth that should be embraced and celebrated without being tested? Well; what do the results tell us, because in sport its all about the end product, the result?" That is our Godfather, The Herald sports editor, Robson Robson Sharuko 's anaylsis of our cricket before everything went tits up into Krakatoa and Versuvius in 2003. I don't know why, but I'm reminded of the good Dr, Alex Magaisa's theory of equalisation in politics, where one party wants to paper over its cracks by the lame excuse that the other party is just as bad. In other circles, the call it Whataboutism. Sharuko's dispiriting analysis of our team was precip