Adelaide — How did it come to this, a tawdry shoving match at an airport between television reporters in expensive suits and security men in tracksuits? And on a cricket tour, which is far removed from some trashy altercation between vulturish paparazzi and the hired goons of self-important celebrities with more Twitter followers than class? At least, a cricket tour should be far removed from all that. And for a few weeks SA’s visit to Australia was no more nor less than that: a cricket tour. Business Day asked the Channel 9 News executive producer for South Australia, Andrew Rutter, whether the network would lay charges of assault and if it had an opinion on Wadee’s behaviour and Amla’s tweet. "We have nothing to add in relation to events [on Monday]," Rutter said. The Sydney Morning Herald took a dim view on its website under the headline: "SA have lost the plot and their security guard ... should be sent home". The article began: "The South Africans have lost the plot. The indign...
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