So there was an incident of "lewd behaviour" by one of the Black Caps enroute to the World Cup. It's time for an honesty call; how many people, when they first heard about this "lewd behaviour" automatically attributed it to Jesse Ryder? Mea culpa.
Of course it wasn't the big guy; the incident involved Tim Southee, and appears to have been blown way out of all proportion. Independant witnesses have confirmed that nothing untoward happened.
Unfortunately for Ryder, he's garnered a bit of a reputation for overindulgence and petulant behaviour, and when incidents such as this happen, it is inevitable that fingers, ours included, will be pointed. But his innings in the final ODI on Saturday showed what a gifted player lurks inside his skin, and we will be delighted if he is one of the stand-out players at the World Cup.
The Black Caps will be in India by now. Let's hope that John Wright, now that he has the team away and in his charge for the first time can mould a team which does its talking on the pitches of the sub-continent rather than in the air above it.
4 comments:
Too be honest it didn't occur to me at all.
I was surprised to hear that southee was involved though.
Much ado about nothing, storm in a tea cup etc.
So what if he joined the mile high club as long it was consenting adults.
But I see all it was was a kiss on the cheek and a bird sitting on his knee.
Tabloid journalism.
Not tabloid journalism PDM, conservative right wing namby pamby wowsers who will get up in arms about their right to smack children, but will call their militant mouthpiece at NewstalkZB (what an AWFUL radio station) about consenting adults having a cuddle. It's the same people who are happy to see violence on TV but not sex. In the last two years this country has become a bunch of puritanical wowsers thanks to social conservatives. We're double dipping backwards to the middle ages here.
Whatever did or didn't happen, I was disgusted to see that TV1 considered it the top news story last night. Does anyone apart from the media even care about this type of story?
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