The ashes are going to be free to air.

Meanwhile in nz the Black Caps coach John Bracewell has been outraged by the force with which Adam Gilchrist relentlessly hit the ball in yesterday’s one dayer. He claims that Gilchrist had been consistently and deliberately hitting the ball with such power that the nz players feared for their personal safety – “and its not the first time he’s done it to us either,” Bracewell continued, “I don’t see how it can be accidental. He does it to everyone. This sort of intimidation shouldn’t be allowed to continue, someone is going to get hurt. If it happens in Australia he could be sued. They have precedents for taking legal action there.” Bracewell also complained that Gilchrist had shown no remorse for his violent actions.

In his column in The Age, Peter Roebuck has called for Gilchrist’s immediate axing from the Australia side for the rest of the nz tour and expressed doubts as to whether the wicket-keeper batsman should be allowed to play in the ashes unless he is able to demonstrate a rehabilitation of his ‘dangerously out of control’ hitting.