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— Thomas Mlambo McCarthy played down the incident while claiming that he was unaware of what caused the fracas.
"The ball was going out and they were fetching it [quickly]. You know if you are winning and the ball goes out‚ you stroll over‚ you don’t want the one thrown to you [by the ball boys]‚ you want the exact one that went out. "So the ball rolled past me and I’m shouting instructions to [Ebrahim] Seedat‚ telling him to tuck inside a little bit. Then I just saw the commotion‚ I honestly didn’t see what happened.
"Then [Rushine] De Reuck pushed my coach Rayaan and that's when … obviously the players are getting involved then. But I am just defusing‚ this time I was not in the middle.Maritzburg head coach though Eric Tinkler had a different version of events while blaming the referee for losing control of the game in the dying stages.
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