Punishment ruled out
PA Wellington The New Zealand cricket captain, John Wright, can find no reason to discipline either Danny Morrison or Mark Greatbatch for their confrontations with the Pakistanis in Christchurch on Saturday. Wright dismissed Morrison’s face-to-face confrontation with Ijaz Ahmed and Greatbatch’s tangling up with Aaqib Javed as nothing more than "on the spur of the moment” incidents. “There’s nothing really controversial about those incidents,” Wright said. “The team viewed them as being something that happened on the spur of the moment and treated it as such.” He said that the New Zealand team brushed off the incidents and he expected Pakistan did much the same after Saturday’s match which
New Zealand won by seven wickets. “Those sorts of things happen every week in club cricket, it’s really no big deal. • All test captains should be present when the International Cricket Conference next meets to discuss neutral umpiring, according to the Pakistan captain, Imran Khan. "They are the ones who are in the middle, and can best put the case for such a panel,” Imran wrote in his regular column in the “Daily Telegraph” newspaper. “They are the ones who come under most pressure when faced with biased or incompetent umpiring.” Imran said he had not enjoyed the drawn third test against New Zealand because it had been ruined
by incompetent and biased umpiring. “Our team became despondent and believed, that no matter what happened, they were not going to win,” he said. He said that every time his players appealed, the New Zealand media and team accused them of cheating. "Then in the one-day international at Christchurch on Saturday, we twice believed we had Andrew Jones out lbw. “The decisions were not given, and he went on to win the match for New Zealand, yet the same umpire had given Salim Malik out lbw to a ball which jagged back, and struck his pad with both his off and middle stumps still showing.” Imran said inexperience and exuberance by his players did not mean they were cheats.
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