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The ICC has confirmed that next month’s matches between Kenya and Namibia in Nairobi have been postponed until September 2012 due to security concerns.Nairobi Gymkhana was to host the four-day ICC Intercontinental Cup match between the two sides from June 6, followed by two 50-over ICC World Cricket League Championship matches on June 11 and 13.The ICC considered holding the match at an alternate venue but decided against it due to logistical difficulties. The final dates and venue are yet to be announced.There have been no international matches in Kenya since Ireland’s tour in February.

Injured Rimmington out

Western Australia fast bowler Nathan Rimmington is injured and has been ruled out for the entire IPL season. Rimmington has been diagnosed with medial tibial plateau stress reaction.
Kings XI had picked Rimmington at the auction last year for $20,000. The franchise said that they would not be seeking any replacement for Rimmington because they have a spare overseas fast bowler in Australia left-armer James Faulkner.

Adam Gilchrist will double up as coach-cum-captain at Kings XI Punjab starting this season. The franchise has appointed Gilchrist, the former Australia wicketkeeper, as head coach for the next three years.Gilchrist will find ample Australian support on the coaching bench: Joe Dawes, the newly-appointed India bowling coach, and Mike Young, fielding consultant previously with Cricket Australia, would serve as Kings XI bowling and fielding coaches respectively. Vikram Rathour, currently coach of the Punjab state team in domestic cricket, will be the assistant coach to Gilchrist.Gilchrist replaced his former Australia teammate Michael Bevan, whose contract was not renewed by the franchise. “We were impressed with his leadership and his technical skills in his first year at Punjab. So it was a natural progression to make him in charge of everything cricket at KXIP,” Arvinder Singh, the head of the franchise’s management, told ESPNcricinfo.Arvinder said the franchise felt there was no need for an exclusive head coach for various reasons. “You don’t have access to your players through the year. You just get to meet them a week to ten days before the IPL starts and then you play sixteen games through the season. So the coach is not going to be somebody who is going to upgrade your skills during that period,” Arvinder said. “You need a person who can understand each individual and the kind of value he brings to the team and utilise it to the maximum.”Gilchrist, Arvinder pointed out, was the right person in the right place to accomplish that. “Gilchrist is the captain and with his vast experience is in a good position. It is best to let one guy decide along with the right support staff and let him decide things.”Meanwhile, Patrick Farhart, who served as Kings XI physiotherapist in the first three seasons of the IPL before moving last year to Mumbai Indians has returned.Edited by Abhishek Purohit

International cricket could next year be held in Australia in April for the first time since 1877, with the possibility of Canberra hosting the national team for the first time. The has reported that Australia are likely to host New Zealand in two limited-overs matches in the first week of April 2013, as part of the city’s centenary celebrations.Canberra’s Manuka Oval has been the venue of two one-day internationals, between South Africa and Zimbabwe in the 1992 World Cup, and between India and Sri Lanka in 2007-08. It is also the site of the annual Prime Minister’s XI game, but it is the only state or territory capital yet to host the Australia team in a full international match.”We’re looking at the centenary year as not just a one-off big party, it’s about setting the groundwork for longer-term legacies,” Andrew Barr, the Australian Capital Territory’s sports minister, told the paper. “There certainly was interest from Cricket Australia as a longer-term goal to look at having more international cricket in Canberra and they’re seeing the centenary year as a great opportunity.”This is obviously a big thing for Canberra, we’ve never had the national team in the national capital so Cricket Australia, the Australian government, the ACT government were all very keen for that to occur and have worked very hard behind the scenes to get us to this point.”Should the plan go ahead, it will be the first occasion international cricket has been held in Australia in April since the second Test of all, which started at the MCG on March 31, 1877. A Cricket Australia spokesman confirmed that CA was keen to hold cricket in Canberra next year as part of the centenary celebrations, but said details were yet to be finalised.

Some manic, late hitting from Chris Morris almost gave Lions a remarkable comeback win, but Cape Cobras hung on to win by just one run at Newlands. The contest seemed over when Lions were left needing 44 runs off three overs, with four wickets in hand, to overhaul Cobras’ 180. Morris hit two fours, and Thami Tsolekile one, to take 17 runs off Justin Kemp in the 18th over, but only seven came off the next, bowled by Brad Hogg, leaving Lions 20 to win off the last. Morris hit Charl Langeveldt’s second ball over backward point, his fourth through midwicket and fifth over extra cover, all for fours, and Lions needed four off the last ball. Morris could only manage to drive the ball to long-on and Lions fell one run short.It should never have got that close for Cobras, who put up an impressive total and then took quick wickets to peg Lions back after Jonathan Vandiar’s 59 off 38 balls had got the chase off to a brisk start.Cobras reached 180 thanks to Owais Shah’s 79 not out off 44 balls. Shah came in after Cobras had lost their openers early and was watchful initially, before breaking free with two leg-side boundaries in the eighth over. He worked the ones and twos in the middle overs, and then exploded in the end. He smashed Dirk Nannes for three consecutive fours in the 16th over, hit two fours and a six in the next one, bowled by Morris, and collected two more boundaries off Sohail Tanvir in the 20th. Shah was assisted by Dane Vilas, who scored 49 not out off 31 balls, including three big sixes.

Jandre Coetzee’s remarkable bowling performance helped Knights win a low-scoring match against Warriors, in Port Elizabeth, by 13 runs, and move to second in the table. Coetzee, the left-arm medium-pacer, took three wickets and conceded just seven runs in his four overs, which included a maiden, as Knights defended 127. Coetzee struck with the first ball of the second innings, getting rid of the dangerous JJ Smuts. He was taken out of the attack after just one over, and Warriors got their chase on track through Colin Ingram’s boundary-filled 53. Two wickets fell in the tenth over, bowled by offspinner Werner Coetsee – Ingram was run out and Johan Botha out caught – but Warriors were still favourites at 84 for 4 in 12 oversCoetzee then came back and took two wickets in three balls to derail the chase. He was held back again, and when he came on to bowl the 17th over, delivered a maiden, which causes the required-rate to rise from 7.00 to 9.33. His next over, the 19th, went for just four runs, and sealed the win.Knights had started off briskly in their innings but the boundaries become harder to find in the middle overs and then completely disappeared in the last five. Obus Pienaar’s 39 off 34 balls had given Knights a solid base, but their middle and lower order could not build on it, and only 26 runs came off the last five overs to keep the total to 127. They needed a good bowling performance to win, and they got one.

Titans and Dolphins shared the points after their match at SuperSport Park was abandoned after 10.3 overs. The match was delayed after 2.2 overs due to lightning. The players came back out but could only play a few more overs before the rain came and washed the game out.

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Kumar Sangakkara fashioned Sri Lanka’s second consecutive 300-plus chase•Getty Images

For once, the choke was almost on the opposition in a game involving South Africa. Sri Lanka almost messed up what had been the perfect big ODI chase. Their openers had blazed away and their middle order had kept up with the asking rate. Kumar Sangakkara was batting on a silken century with Sri Lanka on 274 for 3 in 44 overs chasing 313. And then came the collapse. Sangakkara holed out. It became 308 for 8 before Sachithra Senanayake, playing his second ODI, slog-swept the penultimate delivery for six to ensure the visitors left South Africa with a respectable 2-3 scoreline.Sangakkara and Lahiru Thirimanne had looked on course to lead Sri Lanka to their second consecutive successful chase of a 300-plus target after centuries from AB de Villiers and Graeme Smith had boosted South Africa to 312. In only his fifth ODI, Lahiru Thirimanne matched Sangakkara in an ultimately match-winning fourth-wicket partnership of 100, built on the solid start given by the openers. Following a rain delay after seven overs, the bowlers found it difficult to grip the ball.But having reached his hundred off 96 deliveries, Sangakkara lofted JP Duminy straight to long-off. Fortune seemed to favour Sri Lanka in the next over when Thirimanne inside-edged Morne Morkel past his stumps for a four and off the next ball, Wayne Parnell fumbled at third man in the glare of the floodlights.With 19 needed off 24, Sri Lanka were still on top. Angelo Mathews, though, chipped a Parnell high full toss to short extra cover to bring the hero of the fourth ODI, Thisara Perera, in. Duminy sneaked in a tight penultimate over to Perera which ended with the batsman smashing another high full toss to deep midwicket.It came down to six off the final over with Sri Lanka ahead. de Villiers gambled with Robin Peterson but even he would not have bargained for the left-arm spinner taking two wickets in three deliveries. Nuwan Kulasekara missed an attempted loft over extra cover to be bowled first ball. Rangana Herath sensibly gave the strike to Thirimanne next ball but the latter charged out and sliced the third delivery to short third man. The Wanderers roared with anticipation as Senanayake stepped out to defend the fourth one but was silenced when he slammed the fifth ball for a flat six over deep midwicket. It was also his first scoring shot in one-day internationals.It was a chaotic end to what had been a well-choreographed chase. Sangakkara looked in no trouble and after unfortunate dismissals in the previous two games, carried on to play a decisive innings. Young Thirimanne showed remarkable composure in the company of his senior partner to make his maiden ODI fifty. While Sangakkara was in a zone of his own, finding all corners of the ground, Thirimanne favoured the point region whenever Sri Lanka needed a boundary.

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• Sri Lanka’s chase made it only the second instance of a team chasing 300 in two consecutive matches after New Zealand did so against Australia in 2007. It is also the 38th time overall and the seventh time that Sri Lanka have chased down a 300-plus target.

• This is the fifth time overall and the second time in consecutive matches that South Africa have lost despite setting a target of 300 or more. Their other losses have come against Australia, New Zealand and India.

• For the 11th time in ODIs, there were two centuries scored in an innings for South Africa. Seven of these occasions have come since the start of 2010.

• AB de Villiers became only the fourth South African batsman to score 300 or more runs in a bilateral series (maximum five matches). His strike rate of 125.09 is the highest among the players in the list.

• Kumar Sangakkara set up the chase with only his second hundred in the second innings in ODIs. It is also the 13th occasion overall and the second time against South Africa that a Sri Lankan has scored a century in a successful chase (only matches outside the subcontinent).

• Lasith Malinga conceded 75 or more runs in an innings for only the sixth time in his career and the second time in a game in Johannesburg, after the Champions Trophy game against New Zealand in 2009.

The duo had Upul Tharanga and Tillakaratne Dilshan to thank for giving Sri Lanka the start they needed in a challenging chase. Sri Lanka’s task had been further complicated by the need to keep one eye on the Duckworth-Lewis par score, with the looming threat of more rain after a thunderstorm caused nearly an hour’s break in play.Dilshan was his usual mix of plays-and-misses, on-the-up drives and whips. Tharanga was his usual self as well, timing the ball effortlessly through the off side after Morne dropped a sharp return chance with the batsman on 8. Sri Lanka had raced to 56 when the rain finally arrived in the eighth over.Tharanga launched Lonwabo Tsotsobe for consecutive fours on resumption. Two deliveries later, Tsotsobe slipped in the slower one, and Tharanga sliced his lofted stroke for Duminy to hold on a sensational catch, diving after running back from cover.Dilshan and Sangakkara kept Sri Lanka comfortably ahead of the par score but Tsotsobe struck again, having Dilshan edging an attempted steer off a short ball to the wicketkeeper. But Sangakkara kept finding the odd boundary to ensure that the asking rate did not gallop away.That Sri Lanka were faced with such a stiff chase was because South Africa blasted 209 runs in the second half of their innings, and 109 off the final ten overs, to surge past 300. Smith overcame a scratchy start to biff his first ODI hundred since September 2009; de Villers carried on his superb form in the series to breeze to his first hundred as captain. The partnership of 186 between Smith and de Villiers was the second-highest in an ODI between South Africa and Sri Lanka.As he had done in the fourth ODI, de Villiers put on an incredible display of boundary-hitting; he had targeted extra cover against the spinners in Kimberley, now he added fine leg against the medium-pacers. He repeatedly scooped deliveries from three feet outside off stump over short fine leg. Smith took an eternity to find his range, but when he did, he peppered the midwicket boundary with four sixes, all against the offspin of Senanayake.There was no sign in the first half of the innings of what was to come later. South Africa had been kept down to 103 for 2 in 25 overs, with their latest experiment at the No. 3 position, Faf du Plessis, not working, and Smith struggling to find his timing. It was de Villiers who signalled the shift, launching Tillakaratne Dilshan’s first ball of the 26th over for six over midwicket.Smith soon got to his hundred with a typical nudge on the leg side and the Wanderers did not hold back the applause for their Test captain. To his credit, he was prepared to bat uglier than usual. He fell to Malinga on 125 to a brilliant leaping catch by Dinesh Chandimal at midwicket. An over earlier, Dilshan had spilled a much simpler catch off de Villiers at extra cover. de Villiers was on 84 then, he finished unbeaten on 125.de Villiers’ late assault wasn’t beyond Sri Lanka in the end, though, and left them wondering what could have been had rain not determined the fate of the third ODI.

After India’s 122-run loss at the MCG, India’s third first-Test loss on their last four tours, MS Dhoni said it was the batting that let the side down. The team, he said, also need to come up with ways to run through the opposition’s lower order.”We thought with a 230-odd runs [overnight] lead, if we could get them for 240 or 250, that’s a very gettable score,” Dhoni said. “But I felt 290-odd was also a score we should have achieved. The wicket was good, it was not like there was too much wear and tear on the wicket. I think the batting line-up flopped in both the innings.”First innings, we got off to a decent start. We had a kind of a partnership going, after that we needed to capitalise on it. We were not really able to do that, because of which we were close to 50 runs short. In the second innings, wickets kept falling at regular intervals, which meant getting close to 300-odd runs was more and more difficult. Just that we need to get consistent with our batting.”The Indian batsmen began this year in overcast Cape Town, facing dream spell after dream spell from Dale Steyn who was ably supported by Morne Morkel. Led by Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir, they fought the conditions and the bowling, and managed a draw. That, sadly, was the high point of their Test cricket this year. Since then they have played 16 innings away from home, and have crossed 300 only once. One of those innings was a declaration at 269 for 6, another a score of 94 for 3 in a chase. That leaves 13 innings when India haven’t crossed 300, which is a minimum requisite to compete in most Tests.MS Dhoni: “In games like these, both the innings together, if the amount of runs goes to 90 or 100 for the tail, it’s a big amount of runs to chase.”•AFP

For the England debacle the batsmen could be given some benefit of doubt because of the pressure a toothless bowling attack on them, but here India actually had an attack that matched Australia blow for blow, except for bowling the tail out, where you have to argue captaincy played a big part too. Dhoni agreed about the batsmen’s flaws, but chose to give credit to the Australian bowlers too.”There are a lot of things that could have happened [differently with the batting],” Dhoni said. “But at the same time you need to give credit to the opposition bowlers because of the line and lengths they bowled. A lot of the batsmen who got out, the delivery was close to the off stump. Some of them came in, some of them just held their line. They bowled really well and they pushed the batsmen to play most of the deliveries.”The batsmen had to guess if it [the ball] was coming in or going out. Consistently they bowled well. And session after session, they bowled in the same areas. At some point of time you may commit an error. Maybe that’s what happened in this game.”Dhoni credited the Indian bowling, too, which in turn meant the batsmen needed to clean up their act even more urgently. “The bowlers did their job in this Test,” he said. “We didn’t start off really well in the first innings, but in between we got quick wickets. And we were able to put pressure on the opposition. In the second, when it came to bowling, we started off really well. Overall the bowling department did the job. Just that we need to put runs on board.”However, they needed to find a way to run through the tail as well, he said. “It [Australia’s lower-order contribution] didn’t deflate us,” he said. “It’s something we need to keep an eye on. Even in the first innings their lower order put decent runs on the board. In games like these, both the innings together, if the amount of runs goes to 90 or 100 for the tail, it’s a big amount of runs to chase. We need to come up with ways to get the tailenders out.”The defeat at the MCG, and the England debacle, leaves India with a mixed year. “It was a good year for us as a team,” Dhoni said. “At the same time there were phases we didn’t do really well, the England series being one of the patches where we didn’t win a single game. The World Cup, being one of the most treasured things, gave us immense pleasure to win it, but we weren’t as consistent as were last year. That’s something that does happen in cricket. Overall it’s a good year, that’s what I would say. If we had performed better in England, it would have been a perfect year. It doesn’t always go that way.”

Glenn McGrath on the pace attack

• Peter Siddle has got great attitude. Aggressive bowler, comes in, doesn’t give anything away. Bowls in good areas.

• Ben Hilfenhaus swings the ball and bowled up in the 140s. Good pace, good control.

• James Pattinson has got all the attributes to be a great fast bowler. He is tall. He is strong. He hits good areas at good pace. Fair bit of aggression there.

Australia’s attack could become the best in the world, according to the coach Mickey Arthur. The Australians arrived in Sydney on Saturday ahead of the second Test against India, which starts on January 3 at the SCG, and they go into the game with a 1-0 lead following the strong performance of their three fast bowlers in Melbourne.James Pattinson was Man of the Match for the second time in his three-Test career, Ben Hilfenhaus showed how much he has improved over the past year, and Peter Siddle’s aggression and skill helped him dismiss Sachin Tendulkar in both innings. Australia are expected to retain the attack, which also includes the offspinner Nathan Lyon, in Sydney.However, Ryan Harris has also joined the squad after recovering from his injuries, and as a proven Test performer will be ready should any member of the incumbent trio falter. The 18-year-old Pat Cummins, who made a remarkable debut in Johannesburg in November, will also be in the mix whenever he recovers fully from his foot problem.Over the past few months, Australia have also used Mitchell Starc and Trent Copeland, while Shane Watson’s medium pace will also be important when he returns to the side. Arthur said he was impressed by the depth in the pace stocks.”I thought we had 15 players that can play international cricket at any given time,” Arthur told reporters on Saturday. “Hopefully by the end of the summer we might have 22 guys that can do that because we need to build up our strength in depth, which we are doing now. But I do think this pace attack has the potential to become the best in the world.”Between them, the fast men took 19 of India’s wickets at the MCG, the only exception being the final dismissal of the match, when Umesh Yadav lofted Lyon to long-on. However, Arthur did not expect a four-man pace attack to be on the cards at the SCG, despite the presence of Harris in the squad.”I’m pretty loath to go into any Test match without a spinner,” Arthur said. “Obviously conditions will determine that, but the SCG has normally got a history of favouring spin down the line.”There is absolutely no doubt that they [India] will try and go after him [Lyon],” Arthur said. “But Nathan is a pretty skilful offspinner and I reckon that will develop into a very interesting contest. I think we’ll get a lot of overs out of Nathan if it’s a typical SCG wicket and I’ve got full confidence in his ability.”Arthur was also confident that Australia’s top order could do the job against India, including Shaun Marsh, who was out to poor strokes in both innings in Melbourne. Together with David Warner and Ed Cowan, Marsh is part of an inexperienced top three, but Arthur believes they can become a strong group.”I think we just need to give them time, especially our younger players at one, two and three,” Arthur said. “David Warner is going to be a great player in all three forms of the game, same with Shaun Marsh. I think Ed Cowan gave us that stability that we were looking for, especially in the first innings.”The Australians will train at the SCG on Sunday morning.

Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand batsman, has said he was trying to place Australia A’s bowlers, who were aspiring for a place in the national XI, under pressure during his whirlwind innings of 146 on day one of the tour match in Brisbane.Thanks largely to McCullum, the tourists enjoyed a fruitful first day’s cricket in Australia, while setting back the claims of some of the fast men competing for a place in the home XI for the first Test at the Gabba.”If you get decks as good as that one, it’d be nice to play with that sort of freedom,” McCullum said. “It was quite a good attack as well, so it was nice to get away to quite a decent, positive start early on and try to put them under some pressure too.”McCullum reckoned the Australian bowlers were a tad too short on an even-tempered pitch, reducing their chances of claiming wickets. He singled out James Pattinson, followed by Ben Cutting, as the most effective.”We’ll find out a bit more about them over the next couple of days as well, but I thought they, if anything, bowled a touch short at the start. Once they pitched their lengths up a bit, they were a lot more dangerous,” McCullum said. “[Kane] Williamson’s wicket was probably the perfect length to bowl on that sort of pitch, but maybe it was because it was getting some nice carry as well. But a few of them looked a little bit short from their lengths. Pattinson was the pick of them, to be honest. Cutting [was] not too far away.”Overall McCullum said his team was happy with the way the tour had started, and he did not conceal the tourists’ lofty ambitions for the two Tests. “We’ve got some pretty big aspirations but there’s a lot of cricket to be played,” McCullum said. “We started afresh today, on an even keel with the Aussie A team and it was a matter of trusting our own games, making sure we play as well as we can, and seeing what that does with them.”We managed to put them under a degree of pressure today and we’re probably just up on points as well. Australia is still dangerous. They’re not the team that had five of the greatest players of all time in it, though, so they probably come back to the pack a little bit, but are still a dangerous team. We completely respect that and know if we’ve any chance of pulling this off then we have to play exceptionally well over the 10 days of cricket we’ve got.”

Waqar Younis, who quit as Pakistan coach after their tour of Zimbabwe in September, has said his successor should be someone from within the country. Opinion has been divided on whether Pakistan should look for a Pakistani coach or a foreign one; the PCB committee in charge of appointing the permanent coach received applications from foreign coaches as well as local ones. Waqar said they should choose from among the latter because someone from within the country would understand the system better.”I think it is ideal to have a local coach for many reasons,” Waqar told ESPNcricinfo. “A Pakistani coach actually understands the nature and mental approach of the players, and has a stronger understanding of the system. If I had a successful stint with Pakistan it was only because I came up through the system and hence understand it quite well.”The PCB is yet to appoint a permanent replacement for Waqar with Mohsin Khan being appointed interim coach for the series against Sri Lanka in the UAE. They have drawn up a shortlist of five names but are yet to make a final decision.Waqar coached Pakistan through a difficult period, with the spot-fixing scandal during the England tour in 2010 being followed by Zulqarnain Haider’s abrupt departure on the eve of a one-day match due to threats from bookies. However, despite the shock those events sent through Pakistan, results remained fairly consistent: Pakistan drew a Test series against South Africa before winning one in New Zealand, and then reached the semi-finals of the World Cup. Waqar announced his resignation just before the Zimbabwe tour citing health reasons and has since joined the commentary team for the ongoing Test series in the UAE.He said he was undergoing treatment which prevented him from doing rigorous physical activity. “I am undergoing a treatment that comes with a precaution to avoid pressure and exhausting field work, which I would have been doing as coach. It’s working fine so far and I hope things will be better in near future.”After Pakistan’s tour of the West Indies earlier this year, it was revealed that there had been friction between Waqar and then one-day captain Shahid Afridi during the trip. Afridi was subsequently sacked as captain and he announced a conditional retirement, saying he would only play for Pakistan if there were changes in the board and management. After Waqar’s departure and the replacement of PCB chairman Ijaz Butt by Zaka Ashraf, Afridi said he wanted to return to the national team. Waqar said he did not think it was right of Afridi to have quit international cricket temporarily and said he should only be allowed back if he could prove he deserved it.”I never had a personal problem with Afridi but I believe it wasn’t fair to Pakistan cricket the way he acted, but these are his decisions and his way of handling things. It [his conditional retirement] actually left a negative impact on the minds of the young players in the country and is not a good example for the upcoming players.”There must be sufficient criteria for his return to the national setup. It should be ensured that he has played enough cricket recently and has done enough to be recalled.”Waqar said he was impressed with the way Pakistan had played for most of the first Test against Sri Lanka, and saw them continuing to do well. However, he said it was important that the new coach was given a selection role for the team to progress.”What’s the definition of coach for a national team? The coach must have a role in selecting the best team to work with and hand over to the captain in the field. Pakistan needs to have a clear selection role for their coach. After all, you need to have someone responsible for results and interestingly it’s always the coach who gets sacked if results are not good.”Pakistan are headed in the right direction. They are doing a wonderful job and they could have won the first Test but failed to finish well. You can’t just criticise them for that because they had dominated the opponent for most of the game.”

The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has revoked its decision to name the pavilion at Sabina Park after former West Indies batsmen Lawrence Rowe. The decision came after Rowe reportedly told a radio station that he hadn’t done anything wrong by participating in the West Indies rebel tours to South Africa in 1983 and 1984. In June this year, Rowe had apologised for touring South Africa during apartheid while being honoured by the JCA.”The Board of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) after much consideration, decided at its last Board meeting to revoke the decision it took on June 20, 2011, to name the players’ Pavilion at Sabina Park in honour of Mr. Lawrence Rowe,” the quoted a JCA board release as saying.”By virtue of what he said he showed no remorse,” JCA president Lyndel Wright told the same newspaper. “The people of Jamaica have been hurt and as a national sporting body we have been embarrassed by his statements in the interview.”While it was a hot issue in the media, we didn’t want to rush to a decision so it took us some time to deliberate and consider the issue.”