^^^I can't see how this all became public. Pretty ridiculous really.
Why would Richardson report a text message, ffs.
Surely if he wanted to keep it out of the public eye he would have talked to Styris about it, not gone and cried to NZC.
Disagree. How many Test class openers have New Zealand had? How many Test class batsmen at all in recent times? Underrating Mark Richardson, for mine.Seriously, Styris was a far more valuable player
The tone of the texts were down right disgusting and frankly unbelievable from a senior member of a New Zealand team. If Styris thinks that's the way he and the team, can handle criticism (which wasn't sent on his NZ phone but on an English sim card and wouldn't identify himself when asked) then what a sad man he is.
If any of us received texts like that I'm sure we wouldn't stand for it either.
As far as Mark being considered a narc, he made the mistake of telling his Editor the story, then in true journalism, he ran the story against Mark's wishes. He had only wanted to go through Justin Vaughn and Heath Mills, the official channels, which he has.
The sooner Styris ****s off to another hemisphere the better.
Let them go hard.