LEFT ARM OVER
NEIL MANTHORP: Officials right to have a beef about bullies and chops
Kepler Wessels has sat with admirable skill and balance on many fences during his life. He is never short of an opinion and often keen and principled enough to take a side — but often unable to, for various reasons. But there are some issues he is not prepared to compromise on, and bullying is one of them. "Ask Graeme [Smith], ask me, if you look them in the eye and stand up to them, they back down just like other people… He [David Warner] is not the most intimidating person I’ve ever seen," Wessels said. Smith was also prepared to speak out after Warner’s extraordinary outburst following the run out of AB de Villiers and then the physical and verbal altercation with Quinton de Kock that was caught on CCTV in the entrance to the players’ change rooms. Steve Smith said after the match that De Kock had made some "personal remarks" to Warner that prompted "an emotional reaction." The Australian captain said that "to the best of my knowledge" no comments of a personal nature were made b...
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