Own Correspondent|Sports journalists Mehluli Sibanda has questioned MDC Alliance Senator Lilian Timveous on how she comes to involve herself in issues to do with cricket when she has no knowledge about the game and its administration.

In an email sent to the senator and made available to ZimEye.com, Sibanda seeks clarity on the issues raised by the senator in the House before the christmas break.

Timveous raised a motion accusing the cricket administration of corruption and inefficiency.

The full email to Timveous reads as follows:

“Hello Senator Temveos

My name is Mehluli Sibanda, a sports journalist with Sunday News in Bulawayo.

I have some questions I would like to pose at you and for you to respond to for a story I am working on for this Sunday.

I would be grateful if you could respond to these questions as soon as you can.

I have followed with keen interest your social media posts about Zimbabwe Cricket. I would like to understand what really your interest in cricket is because I have been involved in the sport for two decades and I have never seen you at a cricket match or heard of your involvement in the game.

If you could tell us why the sudden interest in the ZC board?

Have you ever tried to engage Tavengwa Mukuhlani or any of the ZC board members instead of posting your concerns on social media? What will you achieve with your social media posts?

The fact that the Mukuhlani board has solved the long standing debt crisis to you counts for nothing?
You just want the board removed.

Are you working with Heath Streak, Temba Mliswa and David Coltart in your fight against the ZC board?

All sports in Zimbabwe are struggling, football, cricket, rugby, tennis, volleyball, basketball the list is endless so why are you making noise about cricket?

What is so special about cricket to get you talking about it all the time and dedicating so much energy?

Are you calling for the illegal removal of the ZC board?

Do you know the consequences of that? The ZC board’s term expires in August 2019 with a new one to be elected then so why are you calling for the board to be changed? How is that going to be achieved?

You accuse the ZC board of being corrupt?

Why have you not reported the board members to the Zimbabwe Republic Police or the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission if you have proof of the corruption?

Do you have any tangible proof of corruption at Zimbabwe Cricket or the same accusations that we have heard over the years with no proof?

You are calling for a forensic audit of Zimbabwe Cricket accounts, who is going to pay for such an expensive exercise?

The International Cricket Council has ZC audited accounts, are you saying the accounts submitted to the ICC by ZC are fraudulent?

ICC have shown willingness to work with the Tavengwa Mukuhlani led ZC board, that is why they are playing a part in the ZC restructuring, why then are you against the ZC board?

You recently accused Mukuhlani of secretly re-introducing franchise cricket in Zimbabwe. How factual is that?

Are you aware that the re-introduction of franchise cricket was part of a restructuring plan that was approved by the ICC?

Are you even aware it was actually ICC who said ZC cannot sustain 10 provinces because of their financial situation?

Since you claim to love cricket so much, instead of criticizing the ZC board what have you done for the betterment of the game in Midlands or any part of the country?

Is the war against ZC more about personalities Tavengwa Mukuhlani and Ozias Bvute who are in parliament and are from Zanu Pf while you are MDC?

What do you aim to achieve with your motion in the Senate?

So you want Heath Streak absolved of the team’s failure to qualify for the 2019 Cricket World Cup when he was given everything he has for so that the team qualifies for the World Cup?

So how then does is he not suppose to be also blamed for that failure?

Are you aware that we have been going to the World Cup since 1983 and we are not going for the first time since then?

How does the board get the blame for the team’s failure and not Streak?

What makes you think that players are best to run ZC and other sports association?

Who were the administrators when these players were playing? Was it former players?

Could you give me any successful cricket board in the world that is run by a former player? Even the ICC president is not a former player.

If former Zimbabwean players are just interested in getting jobs at ZC and not keen on administration how will they get on the ZC board?

You want to be picked from their homes to come be ZC board members? Are you saying people who have us.”