New Zealand ropes in a local physiotherapist as ICC clarifies Styris’ tweet– ICC World Cup 2011
An embattled New Zealand roped in a local physiotherapist, ahead of their World Cup 2011 clash against defending champions http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 on 25th February, since two crucial members of their official support staff had to rush back home in the wake
of the recent earthquake tragedy.
The host association of Friday’s game, Nagpur, India provided the team with a local physiotherapist who joined the team in the nets on Thursday afternoon.
Sanil Koyili, a local physio, took part in the nets practice session at the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vidarbha-c860 Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium, Nagpur and helped the team with warm-up exercises.
New Zealand’s permanent physiotherapist, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bryan-c48753 Stonach, their trainer, had to rush back home where their families are affected in Christchurch, as a devastating earthquake rattled the city in the early hours of Tuesday this week.
The Kiwis woke up on Tuesday to the news of the high-intensity earthquake in the southern island of New Zealand, which has lead large scale destruction. The earthquake claimed 76 lives and 238 people are reportedly missing as the city searches through the
smouldering remains of the earthquake.
A worn out http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 squad arrived in Nagpur late Wednesday as they tried to focus on the game after spending hours in front of the news channels to get fresh updates while many players used the social micro-blogging website, Twitter to express their shock
and concern.
Scott Styris, the Black Caps’ all-rounder, raised eyebrows earlier on Thursday morning when he posted that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had refused to entertain New Zealand Cricket’s (NZC) request to lend National Cricket Academy (NCA),
Bangalore’s trainer, Paul Close.
“Does anyone know of a physio here in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750? Unfortunately the BCCI won’t let us borrow their kiwi born academy physio,” Styris stated on his official Twitter account.
However, he later replied that the BCCI are trying but Paul is not available.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) media and communications manager, James Fitzgerald, however, cleared the air that there is no controversy on Styris’s post.
“The ICC’s instruction to the players is that they are not supposed to put any comments on social networking site during matches,” he stated concluding that there is no problem with Styris being concerned about his team’s management crisis.
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