It's time New Zealand dumped Ryder
Jesse Ryder is a slow learner
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Jesse Ryder is a slow learner. He has poor impulse control, isn't fulfilling his cricketing potential and causes continual embarrassment to his employers. And? Well, there's not much more to add, writes Hamish Bidwell for Fairfax NZ News.
Ryder is now in a box from which only he can find the latch. Chances? He's had a few. And still he keeps burning his bridges, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald.
So what should New Zealand Cricket's position be? The idea of having teammates take turns as a minder for Ryder is wrong. It's been tried and didn't work. In any case players have other, more pressing priorities such as their own careers instead of keeping an eye on a grown man. Should Ryder's next contract have specific clauses in it, related to performance, and suited to his particular situation.
The editorial in the New Zealand Herald, however, takes a different stance on the Ryder incident: "This was hardly a major transgression. Let's not blow it up out of all proportion."
There is no suggestion that the trio were drunk or were annoying other bar patrons in any way. There was no code of conduct breach that required NZ Cricket's intervention. Indeed, the cricketers seem to have shown considerable restraint when men went out of their way to goad them.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo