Zimbabwe's leading cricketers are preparing to sue their cricket board over unpaid salaries and fees. The Zimbabwe Professional Players Association has engaged leading lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa to pursue Zimbabwe Cricket for more than �400,000.
The action will go through Harare High Court unless the players receive money owed to them by the end of January.
The 35 players under previous contracts will not negotiate new ones until they have been paid everything outstanding.
They are claiming match fees for two Tests and six one-day internationals against New Zealand and India in August and September, plus salaries going back at least five months, together with other allowances and expenses.
Mtetwa said: "I have been engaged by the players to act for them in their claims, but I am naturally waiting to see what happens in the next six days."
Crispin Tsvarai, new chairman of the technical and player welfare committee at ZC has met players representative Clive Field for lengthy discussions.
Further meetings are scheduled for later this week.
Zimbabwe recently pulled out of Test cricket for 12 months after the Government took control of the cricket board at the start of the year.
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I have been engaged by the players and I am naturally waiting to see what happens in the next six days