New Zealand prime minister suggests sinister motives might be afoot in the assault on Jesse Ryder, amid a flood of well wishes and expressions of shock at the attack
ESPNcricinfo staff28-Mar-2013″It sounds quite sinister to me. I mean the fact that there would be four guys attacking him, [from] the media reports I saw looked somewhat unprovoked, and there must be something behind that. The assault seems very vicious so obviously we wish him a speedy recovery, and I’m sure the police will be working to get to the bottom of it.”
“We don’t need security. This is a nice suburb. We run security, we run doormen on the weekend, purely to make sure we have no intoxicated [people] and no underagers at the venue. It’s not about having bouncers on the door. We have doormen that meet and greet and say farewell to the guests … the bar runs very well, we have got nice clientele, and we don’t need security early in the week.”
“Thanks for the calls and msgs of support for Jesse. Just heading to Chch to see him.”
“We are all shocked by what has occurred and extremely concerned for Jesse. New Zealand Cricket’s thoughts are with him and his family.”
“This is very unfortunate. He was looking forward to come, and he was supposed to board the flight for Delhi tomorrow [Friday].”
“We are extremely saddened by the incident, we’re very concerned for Jesse’s well-being of course. He’s been a big part of the team and the organisation for a long time now. Our primary focus right now is Jesse’s welfare, and that involves supporting his family and his management as much as we can, hospital staff as well. We’re also working very closely with the police in terms of their investigation.”
“Come on @DijaRyder show the fight you have within thinking of you brother.”
“Thinking of you mate @DijaRyder”
“I am devastated. I just hope he pulls through, I don’t know what else to say.”
“Lots of positive thoughts for your recovery @DijaRyder… To those cowards, you are not cantabrians or even NZ’ers, you are disgraceful.”
