Teams
Zimbabwean farm first-class cricket involves the below teams: Manicaland Mashonaland Matabeleland Midlands

History
ZC became the to the full member of the ICC in 6 July, 1992. Zimbabwe played its foremost Line 2 text match in 18 October-22 October the same month, against India at the Harare Sports Club within Harare. A match was drawn.

In a period of the 2003 cricket World Cup, the political situation inside Zimbabwe come to the bow on the cricket field. Both Zimbabwean players, Andy Flower and Henry Olonga, defied orders and bore melanize armbands when you took matches around protest against a "death of democracy in Zimbabwe" - a information to their concern across the political actions of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Two players after retired from either either cricket & emigrated from Zimbabwe.

In 2 April, 2004, ZC announced that Test captain Heath Streak had resigned the captainship & retired from either cricket. On top a resulting times it became clear that Streak experienced been dismissed. Fourteen fellow whiten players submitted the listings of demands to the ZC including the reinstatement of Streak & the learn from of the team choice run using a view to eliminating political & racial bias imposed per Mugabe government. a ZC ignored a demands & fielded a team of inexperient youths inside 2 Tests & triplet ODIs against the traveling Sri Lankan side. A understrength Zimbabwe team was resoundingly discomfited, resultant around calls from either several players, ex-players, commentators, & fans for a ICC to strip a ZC of End line text status until the internal crisis can be resolved.

the matter reached a climax whenever ICC Chief Executive Malcom Speed flew to Harare on 17 May to meet with ZC officials & discuss a crisis. A ZC refused to watch him. Speed known as an emergency meeting of the ICC Board to vote on the issue of Zimbabwe's suspension as a End line text united states. In 21 May, with a vote upright hours away, a ZC contacted Cricket Australia with an offer to cancel the two Line 2 text matches against Australia, due to start a next day. Cricket Australia accepted a offer, so averting a vote against a ZCU.

In 10 June, representatives of the ZC, Cricket Australia, the United Cricket Board of South Africa, and a Board of Control for Cricket in India met and agreed that totally odd Trial matches involving Zimbabwe for 2004 would become cancelled.