Zimbabwe have confirmed they will take no part in next summer's World Twenty20 in England.

Scotland will join the elite tournament instead, after the International Cricket Council and Zimbabwe Cricket today ratified a decision initially agreed at the world governing body's annual conference in Dubai two months ago.

Contrary to reports that Zimbabwe were beginning to waver on the offer to withdraw they made back in June, they and ICC president David Morgan, vice-president Sharad Pawar and chief executive Haroon Lorgat have agreed the arrangement will stand.