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6 March 2004 demonstration outside Lord's Cricket Ground in London.

Demonstration spokesperson speaking of the message to the ICC (International Cricket Council) and ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), ahead of their much publicized meeting scheduled on 9 and 10 March 2004 between the ICC and ECB in New Zealand, to discuss the proposed England 2004 cricket tour to Zimbabwe.

Protesters handed out leaflets to people on the street outside Grace Gate at Lord's. One quoted: 'But sport and politics should not be mixed?' Mugabe clearly mixes politics with sport. He is reported to have personally vetted the Zimbabwean team on political grounds. Cricketers who disagreed with him were not selected and some were forced into exile.

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