LEFT ARM OVER
NEIL MANTHORP: Like Steyn did in Tendulkar duel, Kiwis have raised white flag against AB blitzkrieg
It is hard not to concur with the locals about the probable result, writes Neil Manthorp
The New Zealanders just cannot help themselves. Try as they might to drag themselves into the big, bad, real world of crime and nastiness, something comes along that drags them back to the era for which they were known years ago. The front page of Monday’s Waikato News, when the Proteas awoke in Hamilton, promised to tell the "dramatic" tale of the "scam" that threatened to "ruin the lives" of a married couple that had been staying in a motel very close to where the fourth ODI will be played on Wednesday. A fraudster had brazenly presented himself at reception an hour after the couple had left for the day and explained to the receptionist he was there to collect their belongings because they had been called home for a family emergency. The receptionist asked house-keeping to escort him to the room where he packed the married couples’ belongings into their own suitcases and drove off with them. In most parts of the world, that would have been that. But the distraught wife was intervi...
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