On Tuesday, New Zealand police were asked to investigate the racial abuse to England cricketer Jofra Archer during the first Test, after the information supplied by New Zealand Cricket officials. NZC chief executive David White said they have lodged a complaint with police after checking their CCTV footage, listening to the audio, interviewing spectators and collecting material on social media. Earlier, Archer complained of being racially abused during the first Test against New Zealand in Mount Maunganui last week.

In a message on social media, Jofra Archer said it was “disturbing hearing racial insults today whilst battling to help save my team, the crowd was been amazing this week except for that one guy.”

White revealed that the information gathered by NZC although did not directly identify the person responsible, there was enough evidence to involve the police into the investigation.

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“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 said. “Should the person responsible ever reoffend, we believe we have enough information to link him to the Bay Oval incident.”

White further said that if the offender was identified NZC would seek to ban the person from all of its international venues for a lengthy period because of the offence the person did.