 Streak wants all teams to stay away from Zimbabwe until the row is over |
Sacked former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak has urged England and all Test teams to boycott his country until the player crisis is resolved.
Streak is at the centre of a dispute over selection which saw 15 players fired by the Zimbabwe Cricket Union.
England are under pressure to pull out of their October tour in a moral protest against Robert Mugabe's regime.
Streak told BBC's Test Match Special: "If England come it would suggest they agree with what is going on."
He added: "I don't think any country should be coming to play cricket in Zimbabwe until they have fixed the problem, whether it be England, Australia or Bangladesh."
If the row carried on in the coming months it would provide England with a plausible reason to not tour.
But International Cricket Council president Ehsan Mani was confident it would be resolved by then.
South Africa have gone on record as saying they would not be prepared to host Zimbabwe next year if the two parties were still warring.
Zimbabwe's Test series against Australia was scrapped on Friday, one day before the first match was due to start.
It was agreed the one-day series would go ahead, but the players in the dispute were not considered and sacked by the ZCU.
The rebels have turned to the ICC to resolve the dispute, and the ruling body is currently making a legal assessment of whether it is able to answer the request.
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