While the Australian government has already delivered its final verdict on the tour of Zimbabwe, Dean Jones argues against it, stating that Australia have a moral responsibility by touring and inspiring youngsters to take up the game, rather than go back to a life of crime.
When many of Australia's top cricketers took the blood money and went on the rebel tour of South Africa, Zimbabwe helped provide experience for our next generation to develop quickly. I was one of them.
It is worth remembering that Jones, who commentated on the previous Australia tour of Zimbabwe in 2004, said at the time: "I'm just there to watch the cricket and I don't give a rat's arse what he [Mugabe] does about his country."
