Steadfast Brendan Taylor

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Brendan Taylor stayed through some of the toughest times in Zimbabwe cricket's recent history but the circumstances have forced him to opt for a stint in England Brendan Taylor was told to walk away from Zimbabwe Cricket 11 years ago. He stayed. He was told to walk away every year after that. He did not like being told what to do. He stayed. For him, the politics of playing sport in Zimbabwe was secondary to the actual playing and he did not have any real reason to leave. In 2004, during the white-player walkout, Taylor was just out of high school, too young to fully understand the undercurrents but old enough to know playing international cricket was a big deal and the chance to do so was on his doorstep. He stayed. After that, crisis snowballed into crisis. He stayed. In the years that followed, Zimbabwe, the country, was thrown into turmoil. The economy lost so much money, cricket was among the last things it could think about. And in that time they lost so many Test matches - seven in 2005, five by an innings and then some - figuring out how to become competitive was also low down on the radar. They offered themselves up for exile. He stayed. Salaries weren't paid. But there was almost nowhere in the country where it was any different. He stayed..... Because now, enough things have mounted up and his reasons to go have become greater than his reasons to stay. Other people are not telling him what to do but circumstance is. "It hasn't been an easy decision to make," Taylor said. "It's something that I discussed with my family and my wife, and after two-three months of doing that, I decided to go and play in England. I think all players tend to try and maximise a little bit. When you've got kids at home, you want to try and make sure they've got the best sort of upbringing that you can give them. That all sort of favoured the decision. I just want to go there and try to better myself as a cricketer, and at the end of the day, we're all trying to provide for families, and to me that's very important."

Was he not good enough to play for any IPL team ? He could have earned good money there while playing for Zim.