SA trainer fined

JOHANNESBURG, March 13: South Africa8217;s team fitness trainer Paddy Upton was fined 1,000 Rand 201 by the United Cricket Board UCB Disciplinary Committee today after being found guilty of misconduct.

Upton was accused, along with pace bowler Fanie de Villiers, of making racial comments to members of the crowd during the second Test against Pakistan at Durban last week. De Villiers was not fined.

De Villiers said on satellite station M-Net: 8220;There were two guys, one in particular, who was shouting racially obscene comments to our guys on the field, calling us racists and swearing very, very badly, and the worst part was that he was surrounded by three or four hundred young kids who could obviously hear everything.