21-05-2025
Cocaine, blackmail and a fine Test career that isn't over yet
Sometimes life doesn't quite pan out as expected. For Brendan Taylor, arguably Zimbabwe's best batsman of the past decade, there have been many moments in the past few years when that realisation has hit home, none more so perhaps than when, driving with his father to a rehabilitation centre in Nyanga near the Mozambique border, he saw a headline in a local newspaper about his 'cocaine scandal'.
In an alternative universe, Taylor, 39, would be walking out in a Test match on Thursday at Trent Bridge, a ground he knows well and is proud to be associated with after his three years as a Nottinghamshire player. He played 34 Tests and 205 ODIs for Zimbabwe, and the 17 international hundreds that he scored in those
