{"id":9573,"date":"2026-01-07T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9573\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:53:07","slug":"before-bangladesh-these-6-teams-refused-to-play-at-allotted-venue-in-an-icc-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/9573\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Bangladesh THESE 6 teams refused to play at allotted venue in an ICC event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England refused to travel to Zimbabwe and New Zealand decided against going to Kenya. The tournament was hosted in Africa &#8211; by South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. England&#8217;s reason was the then Tony Blair-led govenement&#8217;s stance against erstwhile Zimbabwe administration led by Robert Mugabe. The Kiwis, on the other hand, refused to go to Nairobi because of security reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England refused to travel to Zimbabwe and New Zealand decided against going to Kenya. The tournament was hosted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[6631,6630,6632,6633,6629,1232,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-9573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-1996-odi-world-cup","9":"tag-2003-odi-world-cup","10":"tag-2009-t20-wrold-cup","11":"tag-bangladesh-cricket-board","12":"tag-champions-trophy-2025","13":"tag-t20-world-cup-2026","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}