Mair felt pain in her back while training ahead of the first ODI

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Apr-2024New Zealand seamer Rosemary Mair has been ruled out of the ODI series against England because of a back injury. Fellow seamer Molly Penfold has been called up as her replacement.Mair was making a comeback to the national side. She had played all five T20Is, picking up four wickets at an economy of 7.56. But she felt pain in her back while training ahead of the first ODI, and subsequently missed the game.She travelled to Hamilton with the team for the second ODI. But when she was unable to train on Wednesday, a decision was made.”We’re all gutted for Rosemary as she has been a key member of the squad throughout the series against England.” head coach Ben Sawyer said.”We have a big winter of cricket ahead with tours to England and Australia before the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh, so we want to be cautious and give Rosemary ample time to recover and be ready to go again when we depart for England.”England lead the three-match ODI series, which is part of the ICC Women’s Championship, 1-0.

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta provided an injury update on Gabriel Magalhaes and Jurrien Timber after the defensive pair missed the Gunners' pre-season win over AC Milan. Bukayo Saka's second-half goal sealed the victory in the friendly fixture as the North London side continue to fine-tune their preparations for the upcoming Premier League season.

• Arsenal beat Milan 1-0
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  Gabriel, who had only recently returned from a hamstring injury, was rested. The 27-year-old underwent surgery after sustaining the injury late last season and missed the final stretch of the 2024–25 campaign. Although the Brazilian centre-back had featured in a behind-closed-doors friendly against Watford earlier this month, Arteta made it clear that the medical team and coaching staff were exercising caution regarding his workload.

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  Whereas Timber, who had also been out for an extended spell, was not included in the matchday squad as he continues his rehabilitation. The Dutch defender underwent surgery shortly before the conclusion of the 2024/25 season and has yet to return to full training.

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  Arteta offered a status report during his post-match press conference: "Jurrien is still not there, he's not fully trained yet with us, and Gabi had a little niggle the other day in training, and because of the fact that he's been out for so long as well, we have to manage him, I mean, we've been in Spain, different pitch, different conditions, go to the UK, different ones come here, and there are a lot of changes, so we have to minimise the risk with him."

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  The Gunners’ tour of Asia continues with an open training session scheduled for Friday in Singapore, giving local fans a chance to see their stars up close. Arteta and his staff are expected to assess both Gabriel and Timber during the session, though neither is likely to be rushed into full-intensity drills. Their next match will be against Premier League rivals Newcastle United on Sunday, also in Singapore. After that, Arsenal will travel to Hong Kong, where they are set to face off against Tottenham Hotspur next Thursday.

Atalanta have joined Leeds United in the race to sign English winger Jonathan Rowe from Marseille, a report says.

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With Ademola Lookman possibly leaving to join Inter this summer, Atalanta are on the move to sign a successor to the Nigerian, and according to , they have identified England U-21 star Rowe as the man to fill the role, joining newly promoted Premier League side Leeds in the race. Marseille's asking price exceeds €20 million (£17m/$23m), despite the winger not being a regular starter last season. However, the Ligue 1 side have spent €16m to sign him permanently from Norwich after his loan period ended and will not let him go cheap.

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Rowe, 22, played a key role in England's U-21 European Championship triumph this year, as he scored the winning goal in the final against Germany. Moreover, he recorded seven goal contributions in 28 appearances for Marseille last term. After missing out on the signing of Igor Paixao, Leeds have also turned their attention to Rowe. They offered €35m (£30m/$41m) to Feyenoord in order to acquire his services, so money should not be a roadblock for the Elland Road-based outfit to sign Rowe.

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Rowe recorded two goals and an assist for England in the recently concluded U21 Euro. His form in the competition garnered attention from not only Leeds and Atalanta but also Bournemouth and Roma.

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While Robert De Zerbi wants to give Rowe his breakthrough this season, his future may lie elsewhere amid positive interest from Italy and England.

Sourav Ganguly’s appointment as captain for only one series is an uneasy arrangement for everyone concerned

Commentary by Rahul Bhattacharya12-Aug-2005

Sourav Ganguly gets just one series to prove his form as captain and batsman © Getty Images
Calcutta’s assured its readers this morning that it would take the “mother of all coups” overnight to prevent Sourav Ganguly’s reinstatement as national captain and, much to the benefit of peace in the city, that has not happened despite a selection meeting which lasted roughly four times longer than had been anticipated. The man is back in the seat but confirmed only for a single tour, and it is quite remarkable that the selectors had not the nous to sense the unease of this arrangement. Ganguly himself is understood to have favoured a longer term, say till the year end, no matter who got the job. Perfectly reasonable that is too.It is regular practice, of course, for Indian captains to be appointed on a series basis, but extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures. We’ve often seen a pair of batsmen at the crease together knowing full well that they’re competing against each other as much as with each other. But a captaincy shootout is a bit unique.The selectors are not allowed to tell us, on the record anyway, whether they picked Ganguly because, well, they had never decided to replace him in the first place, or whether the India they saw under Rahul Dravid was not sufficiently promising. One would have to deduce it was the latter case, else why was Dravid appointed unconditionally and for the entire length of that tournament? In the event, what we had in Sri Lanka was something of a sudden-death scenario, one which doused the side in uncertainty if not worse. Now we will have another sudden-death, for Ganguly is on a one-month trial. And, guess what, should nothing conclusive emerge from Zimbabwe, as it very well could from the one-dayers anyway, then, why, we will go at it one more time …Beneath this temporary resolution lie questions which nobody really knows the answers to. If Ganguly aroused enough faith to lead India to the West Indian World Cup then why was he not allowed to lead the side when he returned to it? If Dravid was really being considered as a long-term candidate then how on earth can he have been judged on one tournament, the first of a new season and the first under a new coach?It must be appreciated that we have here two very different men with very distinct styles of leading. Indeed, one of the few fascinations in Indian cricket recently has been to compare the leadership of Ganguly and Dravid. A confident Ganguly awakens something of the animal in his men; even so Dravid is the more tactically aggressive, with a suggestion of brilliance even, were he to spend time on the job. Ganguly is famously a `backer’, firm in the belief that sooner or later his faith in his boys and his formulas will pay off. Dravid, from what he has shown, prefers freestyle, with a thought for the occasion. Go do your thing, I’m behind you and I’ll give you what you want, Ganguly seems to tell his men. Dravid lays out the challenge – look now, bowlers, this is your field, it is set for good bowling and you had better raise your game and make it count. If we are to accept Tiger Pataudi’s broad compartmentalisation of captains as those who push from the back and those who pull from the front, then Ganguly clearly is of the first type and Dravid most likely the second.Having to constantly yo-yo between two different styles would leave any side in a twist. Not that the team has been doing much to help their captains. It’s now become fairly obvious to most followers that they had rather underestimated just how deep the problems are, particularly in limited-overs cricket. This is now a bonafide weak one-day side, batting, bowling, fielding and fitness all somewhere between middling and lousy.For the creativity he has shown (though sometimes uncomfortably eccentric), for his streak of ruthlessness, for his marvellous ability to lead by example, and for claiming an unquestionable place in both XIs, this correspondent would have preferred that Dravid be given the task of dragging the team out of the pit. Yet, who is to know for sure? Ganguly has his many strengths and anyhow journalists get it wrong all the time. The decision has been made and it must be hoped that Ganguly is able to rediscover (and sustain) his best self and help lift the cloud that hangs over Indian cricket.Perhaps, though, we’ve all been obsessing far too much with the captain and the coach. When the individual team members are not playing well enough or, in several cases, simply aren’t good enough, there is little any leader can do. It is hard to escape the feeling that a long and possibly melancholy season lays ahead for India.Let us know what you think

How Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden put together their first century partnership of the series

On the ball with S Rajesh and Arun Gopalakrishnan09-Sep-2005After putting together partnerships of 35, 18, 0, 47, 58, 24, 20 and 50 in the series so far, Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden finally managed their first century stand in the last Test. It was an especially huge struggle for Hayden, who scored his runs at two per over, compared to Langer’s 4.3.Hayden’s lack of confidence showed in his ultra-cautious approach – he scored at 1.85 runs per over against Ashley Giles, 1.64 against Steve Harmison and 1.29 against Matthew Hoggard. Langer’s run rates against those three bowlers were 5.59 (Giles), 3.11 (Harmison) and 5.60 (Hoggard). While Hayden’s defensive approach was unusual, he did it well: his in-control factor – that’s the number of balls middled or left alone – though, was an outstanding 89.58%. Langer’s was only 79.05.Before this innings, Hayden had a scoring rate of 61.62 to Langer’s 53.70, but quite surprisingly, in the 27 fifty-plus stands they’ve been involved in since 2002, Langer has outscored Hayden 16 times. If Hayden continues to score at the same rate till he gets out, this innings will rank as his second-slowest among knocks in which he faced at least 75 balls. His slowest remains the 19 he scored off 77 balls against West Indies in 2003. His other top go-slow efforts are 40 off 115 balls against South Africa in 1997, 35 off 99 balls against England in 2001 and 36 off 91 balls earlier in the current series. In all those knocks, he finished with a strike rate of less than 40.

England’s bowlers have made a habit of taking a wicket in the first over of a spell, session or after a break in play

Andrew McGlashan27-Aug-2005

Simon Jones has the happy knack of picking up a quick wicket when he comes on to bowl © Getty Images
The first over of a spell used to go something like this: the bowler would loosen up, find his range while the batsman would size up the task in front of him. But the England attack are having none of that this summer and have become the masters of striking in the first over – and even with the first ball – of a spell.Some of the credit must go to Michael Vaughan, who is developing the happy knack of bringing on the right bowler at the right time; whether it is Andrew Flintoff to Adam Gilchrist, Simon Jones to Ricky Ponting or Steve Harmison to Michael Clarke. But then the rest is down to the bowlers, who have constantly put the ball in the right place at the very start.The England attack have also used natural breaks in play – drinks intervals, lunch and tea – to the grab the batsmen unawares when they resume. The perfect example of this was Flintoff’s dismissal of Simon Katich at Old Trafford when, after a series of balls moving away from the batsman before a drinks break, he then brought one back into Katich who shouldered arms and had to watch his off stump cart-wheeling towards the wicketkeeper.At the last count – and it continued to grow even as this piece was being written – England’s bowlers had conjured a wicket in the first over of a spell, session or after a break on 14 occasions. The latest scalp was Matthew Hayden – the third time it has happened to him – when he was caught by Ashley Giles off Flintoff in the second innings at Trent Bridge.Flintoff has managed the early wicket on three occasions but the king of quick strikes is Simon Jones, who has dismissed an Australian on five occasions in a first over – including three first ball. The trend was started at Lord’s when Jones removed Damien Martyn with his opening delivery of the series. His victims then included Hayden in the second innings at Edgbaston, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne at Old Trafford, then Katich in the first innings at Trent Bridge (which turned into two in the over when Warne fell next ball).Each of Australia’s top eight have fallen at least once in the first over from an England bowler – Ricky Ponting was the second victim in that memorable opening salvo from Flintoff in the second innings at Edgbaston – but the most frequent victim has been Justin Langer who has departed four times in first overs of a bowler’s spell.Commentators often talk about the dangers to a batsman of starting their innings again after a break or getting used to a new bowler – this England team have made it down right lethal.

Stats highlights of Mark Boucher’s career of 100 Tests

Kanishkaa Balachandran11-Jan-2007

Mark Boucher will walk out for the 100th time in a Test when South Africa take on Pakistan at Centurion © Cricinfo Ltd
Mark Boucher shares an affinity with Pakistan. In October 1997, an injury to Dave Richardson gave him an emergency call-up to the tour of Pakistan. His debut at Sheikhupura was as unspectacular as the match itself, facing 11 balls before an Azhar Mahmood yorker sent his middle stump cartwheeling. With Richardson’s impending retirement, the search was on for a successor, and in the tour of Australia that followed, Richardson virtually warmed the seat for the promising wicketkeeper.The return series by Pakistan the following year made Boucher’s career, both as a batsman and a ‘keeper. Such was his impact on that series that he went on to play 75 consecutive Tests, a South African record. Against the same opposition nine years later, he has two milestones to look forward to, one of which is guaranteed. He will be the fourth South African to play 100 Tests, and is two catches away from breaking Ian Healy’s world record of 366 catches, the most by any wicketkeeper. In terms of total dismissals, including stumpings, he has 380, behind Healy (395) and Adam Gilchrist (381).He is also the third wicketkeeper to play 100 Tests – including the one-off Super Test against Australia in 2005 – after Healy and Alec Stewart. The table below lists Boucher’s progression, and his first ten games were indicative of his proficiency behind the stumps.

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1-50 10 51-100 13 101-150 15 151-200 14 201-250 11 251-300 16 Boucher’s first entry into the record books came as early as his second Test, sharing a world-record ninth-wicket stand of 195 with Pat Symcox at Johannesburg against Pakistan, rescuing the side from a precarious position at 166 for 8. He made the third Test of that series at Port Elizabeth his own, aiding South Africa’s revival with 52 and taking six catches in Pakistan’s first innings and nine for the match. He repeated the feat of six dismissals in an innings twice since then, against Sri Lanka in 1997-98 and against Zimbabwe at Centurion in 2004-05. December 13, 1999, was a special day for Boucher as he held the record for the quickest to 100 dismissals in Tests, taking just 23 matches. He broke the previous record set by Australia’s Wally Grout, one which stood for 38 years. Gilchrist, who often competed with Boucher for the wicketkeeper’s spot in imaginary World XI and fantasy squads, overtook Boucher two years later. Boucher’s aggregate of 3721 runs at an average of exactly 30 may not be earth shattering for a quality player, but statistics cannot measure the value of Boucher’s crucial knocks at No. 7, often bailing the team out of deep waters like an unsung hero. Among wicketkeepers, his 25 half-centuries places him behind England’s Alan Knott, who has 30 half-centuries to his credit. South Africa have won 10 matches in which Boucher has scored a half-century and his team has never lost a Test when he crossed 100. South Africa’s fast men have Boucher to thank for pouching several edges, none more so than Shaun Pollock. The description of ‘c Boucher b Pollock’ has occured 79 times, while Makhaya Ntini has 57 wickets with Boucher’s assistance. Allan Donald finished his career with 53 victims with Boucher’s help.

Jenny Thompson pays tribute to Australian fast bowler Cathryn Fitzpatrick who has retired, aged 39

Jenny Thompson28-Mar-2007

This, it seems, is the year for blond Australian bowling legends to
retire. First Warne and McGrath said goodbye, now it’s time to thank Cathryn Fitzpatrick, their peerless fast bowler, for her contribution. Like Shane
and Glenn, she will be missed and, like Shane and Glenn, she’ll be
hard to replace.Her retirement was just as shocking as theirs. Of course it was
inevitable, as she’s now nearing 40, yet, as with Warnie, all along
you still secretly clung on to the child-like hope that somehow they
would go on forever, in some cricketing NeverNeverLand. But then came
confirmation that she is, after all, mortal. She retired. “You can’t
keep playing forever,” she confessed.Yet it seemed that she would. Even immediately prior to her bowing
out, she was at the peak of powers in the World Series in India, as
fit now as she was when she first hurled down one of her 75mph rockets
for Australia a whopping 16 years ago. Sixteen years at international
level is impressive enough for a male, but for a female – often forced
to put their ‘real’ career on hold, or with thoughts turning to a
family – it’s remarkable.For those who faced her, those 16 years of being the world’s
outstanding female pace bowler would have felt like 60. Charlotte
Edwards, England’s captain and formidable batsman, enjoyed many a duel
with the woman they called the female Brett Lee, although perhaps
Brett Lee was the male Fitzpatrick. “It was always a challenge to face her,” says Edwards. “You always knew that you had to raise your game. I looked forward to it, though, because you always knew you were going
to be tested.”

Fitzpatrick was certainly Lee in style, tearing in, pinging them down
and watching the stumps cartwheel. But she also had the fierce economy of
McGrath – 1.91 in Tests and 3.01 in one-dayers. Her 180 ODI wickets
came at a ridiculously economic 16.79. The numbers just keep stacking up: she was also the first bowler to 150 one-day wickets, and finished with 180 from her
109 one-dayers at an impressive strike-rate of 33.42. At state level, she also holds the record for most wickets in a career, with 198 for Victoria.When she did retire it was on an inevitable high, after
helping Australia win the World Series, and as a two-time World Cup
winner. She could have gone on longer. So why didn’t she? “There are
only so many pre-seasons you can do.”Her departure leaves a gaping hole in Australia’s attack, with no
obvious candidate to replace her. But she could have a hand in
unearthing, and nurturing, the next Fitzpatrick. She has been developing her coaching skills for a long time now. Indeed, last year she won a scholarship with the Australian Sports Commission. Controversy courted
her when she was called in to help the Australian men’s team; but
maybe, just maybe, with such a frightening economy rate and smooth action she had
something to say.She believes she does, and takes inspiration from John Harmer, the former
Australia coach who went on to coach England, too. “I believe that no
other individual has had a bigger impact on women’s cricket than John,
and that’s why I know it’s so vital to have quality coaches in the
system.” And now it’s Tim Neilsen who’s inspiring her, by teaching her
to coach.”Cricket has cost me a lot of money and a lot of time,” she said two years ago, “but something makes me want to keep going.” While it may not be in the playing arena any more, she will certainly be contributing off the pitch.

It was a day when bowlers were rewarded for their skills and another set of modern batsmen was found wanting against a rare, but thankfully not extinct, bowling art: swing bowling

Sambit Bal at the WACA17-Jan-2008

Irfan Pathan has regained his pace and swing and was strong enough to bowl 17 overs in the searing heat © Getty Images
This Test began with Australia chasing history, and India, at least in the eyes of cricket fans, looking to chase away the ghosts. They last played a Test here 15 years ago and, though the only survivor from that team would have carried happy personal memories, even he would not have forgotten the ignominy of the final innings when ten wickets fell for 59 runs. This Test has not been won or lost yet but, incredibly, it is now Australia who left playing catch-up.Fifteen wickets in the day would point to some fire or juice in the pitch. That was hardly the case. It was a day when bowlers were rewarded for their skills and another set of modern batsmen was found wanting against a rare, but thankfully not extinct, bowling art: swing bowling. Australia lost the Ashes in 2005 to reverse-swing and today they were undone by traditional swing. It had been a similar story in the first innings of the second Test but, unlike that day, fortune didn’t desert India, who weathered a dangerous sixth-wicket partnership to finish the second day on top.It’s a match that continues to surprise. Australia began the day with joy, yet by lunch they were up against it. On a pitch that was supposedly designed to blow the Indian batsmen off their blocks, it was the Indian pace bowlers, at best sharp but mostly medium, who teased the Australians by floating the ball up and curving it away. By the end of the day, the Australian bowlers, who couldn’t have imagined they would be bowling again in the day, seemed to be gripped by nerves as they sent down a succession of no-balls and wides. Shaun Tait, pushed to hurry through the last over, sprayed a wide off a short run and then lost his run-up the next ball.Apart from those two ill-chosen strokes in the last hour of the first day, India have made all the running in this Test so far. Finally they chose the right batting order – with hindsight it can now be said that the eagerness to accommodate Yuvraj Singh was a great distraction – and they were not deterred at the toss by the reputation of the pitch. It would have been a defensive decision to bowl first. And even Irfan Pathan rewarded the team management with a cameo with the bat and a lovely opening spell that accounted for the openers. He has regained his pace and swing and was strong enough to bowl 17 overs in the searing heat.In the context of what has gone so far, it is easy to miss the significance of the partnership yesterday between Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. In a Test where most batsmen have played and missed, their performance in the second session can be called commanding. Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist, who scored his first fifty of the series, almost matched them today but, if their rollicking stand was based on adventurism and bold stroke-play, Dravid and Tendulkar provided technical virtuosity.So much has already happened in the Test it is hard to believe only two days are over. But India will know that five sessions don’t win a Test. Some had predicted a three-day finish for this Test but, barring a sensational collapse from India, it is expected to go into the fourth day. India will need three solid sessions to take control of the match. There will rarely be a better opportunity for their dazzling batsmen to set it up for their much more inexperienced bowlers who have, once again, surpassed all expectations.Australia would want to keep the chase down to 300 and wouldn’t want to chase more than 350. India would perhaps feel secure with a 450-run advantage. The battle for those hundred runs would be fascinating. Brett Lee and Stuart Clark have been Australia’s outstanding bowlers but Ponting will expect Tait, who has replaced the man who is not only their main spin option but a handy No. 8, to step up tomorrow.Australia are behind in this match but it is not beyond them. Nothing is. They have not racked up this winning streak with the help of umpires. They will fight like hell to maintain it. Expect another cracking day tomorrow. Perhaps the decisive one.

John Buchanan believes the incidents on the field during the Sydney Test were blown out of proportion

Interview by Nagraj Gollapudi24-Jan-2008

Do you think the codes of gamesmanship have been breached?
No, I don’t really. There’s probably the odd incident, but when you consider that there are about two-and-a-half thousand incidents in a Test – in other words balls – of which one or two might have been breached, it’s much the same as it has always been. It’s not to say that the players and the game want to tolerate that, but they happen. What is happening now is that we’ve got far more coverage for all those particular incidents whether it be TV or radio or newspapers. So those isolated incidents suddenly are blown out of proportions. As I said not that they shouldn’t be necessarily dealt with, but at the moment they are being over-emphasised to the detriment of the game.So you are saying the media is playing it up?
They are instrumental in these incidents gaining much greater attention than what they should.Do you believe in the age-old belief of cricket being a civilised sport?
Yes, I do. Again we’ve got a highly competitive sport out there with players all trying to deliver their best for their country. They try to do that within the rules, regulations, spirit of the game, and respecting each other, themselves and the game. But they are not perfect; they make mistakes. Unfortunately those mistakes get amplified in international sport. Certainly my experience – going back to my playing days – doesn’t suggest it’s any different today than it was then.You have coached Australia during Steve Waugh’s reign as a captain. Waugh was a firm believer of gamesmanship. What were you thoughts?
To me the game is made up of the technical side, the physical side, the tactical side and the mental side. When you go to the field and you are playing an opposition, you try to exploit any weakness they have. That’s the same in any sport and any country. Just because Steve Waugh gave it a label of mental disintegration, the Australian cricket team were not doing anything too different to Australian teams of the past and too different to what Australian teams are doing now.You talked about exploiting weaknesses. Were there specific soft targets in the opposition to expose mentally?
We looked at everything we possibly could to go about winning a game. You are obviously preparing yourself and understanding your own game and making sure that your primary focus is to deliver your game. But in doing that you are actually working at areas where you take advantage of your opposition. One thing that should be emphasised when I talk about mental exploitation, and when people talk about sledging, is that a lot of talk is actually no-talk. There are some players who come on to the field wanting to engage in a conversation, that’s their personality. Part of the sledge is not to talk to them because you are trying to again find out whether or not you can actually get under their guard, whether you can actually distract them.Ian Chappell believes that gamesmanship always existed with the major difference of late being personal abuse having crept in.
I believe every player goes there on the field with the intent of not using any sort of personal abuse, but it does occur occasionally. It . That’s what I’m saying: people are not perfect even if we would like them to be and so would they. That’s why everybody understands if an individual has gone over the line.So if the line has been crossed should the players sort it on the field or outside?
I agree. Unfortunately it [what happened at Sydney] got bigger than it should have. I always believe it should be dealt between players, maybe in consultation with the umpires and the referee but without it actually becoming as big an issue as it has now. Because then all it does is create the fuel for the next incident to be either interpreted incorrectly or interpreted mysteriously to get to the desired result by the media.

One of the controversial things that sullied matters at Sydney was India being disappointed with a couple of catches claimed by the Australian fieldsmen. Is it fair to take the word of the fieldsman?
If we are calling for the game to be played in the right spirit and fairness and so on, the decision must rest with the players in terms of a catch. As we know technology is quite inadequate when it comes to dealing with those particular matters: one, the speed of the cameras is insufficient and two, you don’t have cameras at the right positions so invariably there’s very few times that you can use that technology to decide on fair catching. So the best way is to leave the onus with the player, with the honesty of the player. If replays and television shows them to be wrong, that person has to live with that. They’ve to live with the consequences of the choices they make then.Where do you draw the line?
The players know that. Everybody knows what personal abuse is, what’s not acceptable. That’s the line. As soon as that line is crossed then it is up to the management of that person in that team to deal with it and obviously also for them to apologise in the appropriate way to the opposition.