New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has, on Tuesday, December 3, lodged a complaint with Tauranga police over the racial abuse directed at England’s Jofra Archer after failing to identify the culprit.

Last week, the fast-bowler Archer was racially abused by a spectator while batting on the final day of the first Test of the just-concluded two-match Test series against New Zealand at Bay Oval.

However, the NZC has done all possible efforts during its investigation, included studying CCTV footage, listening to the audio, interviewing bystanders and obtaining material on social media, but the governing body failed to identify the culprit and therefore they decided to seek the police help.

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In a statement, New Zealand’s cricket body said that it would hand over gathered information to authorities to help with a police investigation to identify the person responsible. NZC chief executive David White said, “What happened to Jofra was reprehensible and has led to a general upscaling of security around the area of racial abuse at all our international venues.”

He signed off by saying, “Should the person responsible ever re-offend, we believe we have enough information to link him to the Bay Oval incident.”

(With AP Inputs)