Zimbabwe face tour ban  The Labour government will make the
moral case for Zimbabwe to be banned from the Twenty20 World Cup
in England next summer, as well as the one-day international
tour scheduled to precede it, when a letter from the culture
secretary, Andy Burnham, expressing opposition to their visit is
delivered to the England and Wales Cricket Board at Lord's
today.  The decision follows news that Zimbabwe faces the
possibility of suspension from international competition by the
sport's world governing body, the International Cricket Council,
at a meeting in Dubai next Wednesday. Burnham will urge the
board to take a tough stance there and it is understood that the
government is ready to use immigration powers to bar Zimbabwean
cricketers from entry to the UK if their planned visit is not
called off.  The ECB has long wanted Labour to ban England from
playing Zimbabwe, so protecting them from the risk of an
international ban. The violence in Zimbabwe during Robert
Mugabe's election campaign, plus the