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New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder, 23, is going to be out of playing cricket for at least three months after an incedent at christchurch bar early on sunday morning a few weeks ago. After getting very drunk he punched a glass window and got serious injuries on his hand. When Ryder was then admitted to Hospital he was said to have been abusing the Hospital staff and demanding to get immediate treatment for his Hand.

After finding out about this New Zealand Cricket was absolutely appalled. This made it even worse when they found that Ryder had been out drinking until 1.30 a.m. the night before the one day final between New Zealand and England at Christchurch on Saturday

I think that this is a very bad example for New Zealand. The fact that one of our cricket players would even be out drinking the night before a final is bad enough so 1.30 is just awful. Then also getting so drunk to cause such injury to his hand just chips in on making it even worse. I have also heard Ryder saying that he is able to control his drinking but to me this obviously shows that it is a problem. Surely he would have enough sense to stop the drinking before it gets this bad so I definitely think that his drinking is a big problem.

Is Ryder’s injury punishment enough for his behaviour?

 I don’t think that it is- he has set a very bad example for New Zealand; he was out drinking the night before; he abused hospital staff and is not able to play cricket for three months at the least. So personally, it was his drinking that caused it so I dont think that his injury is enough punishment and

But thats only my opinion- Whats Yours?

Yesterday was was some heats for the Te Awamutu Intermediate Swimming Sports, the people with the best times will get through to the finals on Friday the 7th of March. Then also some of those people will go to the Inter-Intermediate Swimming competition. So we were all in our togs and ready to swim, I am a confident swimmer but I don’t think I can swim the fastest but I still tried the 25metre and the 50metre freestyle heats, the 25metre and the 50metre breaststroke heats and also the 25metre backstroke heat. I also swam in a medley which was 25metres backstroke then 25metres breaststroke and then another 25metres of freestyle and that was really tiring. Any way I was able to finish all of those but I didn’t come first in any of them so I’m not to sure that I will get into any finals but then again I could have been in a fast heat so I guess I’ll have to just wait and see.

Today we sadly played the last rugby game for us in this years 2007 rugby world cup. We won our pool and made it into the quarterfinals. This year our quarterfinal was up against France. Everyone knew it was going to be a tough game but we started off well ahead with us getting two penalty kicks and a converted try over before half time while only right on half time France got their first three points which made the half time score 13-3 to New Zealand. Almost straight after half time Luke McAlister got a yellow card which means he has to go off the field and let the All Blacks play with one less player for ten minutes. While Luke McAlister was off France got over another three points with a penalty kick and a converted try worth seven points to make the score an even 13 each. A little while later we got an unconverted try giving us an extra five points. France also got a try except they got their conversion over so now France were ahead by two . The All Blacks kept on trying and trying but sadly the score didn’t change and so France came out on top and at full time the score was still 20-18 to France. Hopefully with the Rugby World Cup being held in New Zealand next time the All Blacks will have many more supporters and with any luck do better next time.

On Wednesday we had our school inter house and inter class cross country run. We had to meet in our house groups on the netball courts after an early lunch break. The teachers talked to us for a bit and then the year 8 girls started off. About 20 minutes later the first few started finishing and the year 7 boys were off. When they were finishing off I (one of the year 7 girls) went for a quick warm-up run and then started to stretch. I heard on your marks, GO!!! and I started to run. We were running the cross country track. I  found a steady pace that I could stay at right the way through. At the end I tried to do a sprint finish but unluckily I didn’t end up passing any one. I thought I did really well as I came 26th out of about 100 other people. After us the year 8 boys took off and once they had all finished the cross country was over. I am still waiting to see if my class or my house won which hopefully both of them did.