Zimbabwe’s unpaid cricketers will have a second meeting with their board chairman to try and end a two-month strike that has already caused the cancellation of Afghanistan’s first overseas tour.

Captain Brendan Taylor told The Associated Press on Tuesday that players met with Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka over the weekend and will sit down again on Wednesday in an attempt to “resolve the current crisis and give cricket a lifeline”.

Zimbabwe’s struggling cricket board owes $US15 million ($A17 million) to a local bank and has applied to the International Cricket Council for another loan of $US3 million.

Zimbabwe cancelled this month’s Afghanistan’s tour and was also unable to host Sri Lanka late last year because of money problems.

Players also boycotted domestic matches last month because they hadn’t been paid.