What a journey! Began in Cape Town on Monday, leaving home at 2.30pm and finished in Port of Spain, Trinidad, at 7:30pm local time on Tuesday – 35 hours later.
After 22 years as a cricket commentator and journalist, my first appointment behind ‘enemy lines’, as media liaison officer for the Zimbabwe national cricket team, is well truly underway.
If it had been with any other team then the back-to-back long haul flights from Jo’burg to London and onto Trinidad would have been in Business Class and therefore entirely bearable, but Zimbabwe travel economy. And not just any old economy – right at the back of the plane economy, the cheapest class of ticket you can buy.
Zimbabwe Cricket is not flush with money, far from it, so nobody was complaining too loudly. But then several other cricket boards are also struggling for cash but they adopt a policy of ‘treat them like winners and they’ll play like winners.’ Obviously in the case of Pakistan and West Indies at the moment that policy is failing spectacularly.
Zimbabwe recently played back-to-back five Test series against Bangladesh and lost, cumulatively, by a scoreline of 8-2. So until they start winning a few more games, it seems, the travel policy is likely to remain one of: ‘Let them earn a more comfortable seat.’
More later…
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