Hampshire chairman Rod Bransgrove will meet with the rest of the England and Wales cricket Board's management board tomorrow to discuss whether England should tour Zimbabwe later this year.

Bransgrove and the board's 15 other members will discuss the controversial report penned by the ECB's corporate affairs chairman Des Wilson, which recommends that moral issues should be taken into account before giving England tours the go-ahead.

As things stand, countries can only pull out of an overseas tour if there are safety risks or because of a government ban.

But the ECB is expected to pull England out of the tour, which is scheduled for October, when the board makes its decision next month despite a new twist, which came in the form of a letter to the 18 first class counties from the Zimbabwe CU yesterday.

The letter is a reminder of the financial implications to the counties, with Peter Chingoka, the chairman of the Zimababwe Cricket signing off by saying: "The consequences for cricket in Zimbabwe are very real if England don't tour but the long term damage to the ECB and the game in the UK could be even greater."

England's refusal to play their World Cup match against Zimbabwe in Harare in February cost the ECB £1.5 m in revenue, the annual sum each county receives from domestic cricket's governing body.

But in the last 12 months Robert Mugabe's regime has deteriorated and last month Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth.

So Bransgrove, who is one of three county chairmen on the board - Hampshire are one of six counties represented - and the rest of the ECB's management board will have plenty to discuss tomorrow. Bransgrove was unavailable for comment yesterday.