In 2003, Coltart met with the Zimbabwean cricketers Andy Flower and Henry Olonga to discuss their plans for making a protest against the Mugabe regime at the forthcoming World Cup, and came up with the idea of the two cricketers wearing black armbands during the match, signifying the death of democracy in Zimbabwe.
The programme was launched in 2001 with the aim of preparing the top Associate Member teams for the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
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He participated in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, and made an impressive debut in which he disposed of South Africans Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis.
However, John Wright's tenure had also seen India's rise to the finals of the 2003 Cricket World Cup and its first victories against Pakistan on Pakistani soil in both the three-match Test series and the Samsung Cup five-match ODI series.
Along with Seren Waters, Allan is expected to be part of the team that pulls Kenya from their prolonged slump following the brilliant 2003 Cricket World Cup campaign.
The matter came to prominence before the 2003 World Cup, when both the British prime minister Tony Blair and the Australian prime minister John Howard said they would prefer it if their teams did not travel to Zimbabwe, but did not ban them from doing so.