We arrived in South Africa late on Wednesday after a long flight from Colombo with the disappointment of losing the Compaq tri-series final to India still fresh in our minds. This, however, is a new tournament and we need to focus on the task ahead and not on the past.
Has Asia seen the last of world’s No1 ranked umpire Simon Taufel live in action? After his second bitter on-the-job experience that he tasted in Sri Lanka, the 38-year-old Australian umpire has written to the ICC and requested them to leave him out of any assignments in the Asian region in the future.
