"I fully understand that in football that results on the pitch are paramount and over those same years they frankly haven't been good enough," Moshiri wrote.

His successor Navin Ramgoolam told the Mauritian parliament he was "still willing to conclude an agreement", but the draft deal was not good enough for his country.

“I mean, the kid’s a good player, man. I mean, regardless of what everybody says about him, ‘He’s not good enough.

With the pressure released, he then carted Cummins into the second tier over mid-wicket, before the umpires decided the light was not good enough to continue.

But that is "ludicrous" says Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley and "simply not good enough".