Zimbabwe Cricket's (ZC) construction of a flagship 10,000-seater stadium at Victoria Falls has come under severe criticism from the country's former sports minister and mayor of Bulawayo, David Coltart.
The stadium, named the Fale Mosi-oa-Tunya International Cricket Stadium, is scheduled to be ready by August 2026 and is expected to host matches in the 2027 ODI World Cup. It has been called a "misplaced budgetary priority" by Coltart, even as ZC looks to market it as a destination venue for touring teams and the fans, especially from the countries that make up cricket's Big Three.
Fale Mosi-oa-Tunya International Cricket Stadium has already had the main pitch planted, irrigation installed, and grass embankments completed. Work is now being done on the players' pavilion and media centre,