Jofra

Jofra Archer claims he was racially abused by a member of the crowd in Tauranga.

I doubt he was.

Mr Archer is, of course, the dark-skinned, supremely talented, Pom quick bowler who so badly underperformed in the Tauranga test match.

He claims he was racially abused - despite also claiming he didn't know the meaning of the words allegedly used - after he was dismissed in the Pom second innings leaving his team only one wicket away from ignominious defeat.

I doubt he was racially abused because in every crowd of more than three people in New Zealand there is one wanker who will report to authorities and the slime, any comment overheard, directed at anyone other than a white man, that is not completely approbatory, yet not one complaint other than Archer's has been reported.

I also doubt the claim because most NZ cricket fans are not stupid and would have been applauding Mr Archer on his ineptitude that had him caught on the boundary.

More, I suspect, a poor loser than a victim.