Aaron Bhatnagar has a good suggestion on the cricket tour. Put up a joke team - meet the obligations of the contracts. Show the Zimbabwe Government we are not amused. This is an improvement on my observations here and here. Herald columnist Richard Boock has made some very good observations on why aiming at the ICC won't work (nor NZ Cricket). Notably, Boock shows Goff and Co are either seriously out of touch (or cynically using the cricketers to be the fall guys)
"...the ICC isn't run by stuffy Brits any more, it's run by the combined weight of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Africa, the West Indies and Zimbabwe."

In other words the axis of power is with the Third World and they will not take kindly to either being hectored (again) by white politicians, or take a risk their own record on human rights will be next...

Richard carries on...
"But - and here's the twist - to do it while we actively pursue a free-trade agreement with China, support the illegal regime of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, play cricket in the brutal police environment of Guyana, and tour Tamil-persecuted Sri Lanka, is a hypocrisy of Capill-like proportions".

Therein lies the hypocrisy of Goff and Co and their bankrupt moral code - fancy putting the cricketers up as the fall guys.