Match referee Gundappa Viswanath plans to rein in captains Stephen Fleming and Graeme Smith before today's final one-day cricket international between New Zealand and South Africa.
Sunday's fifth one-dayer at Eden Park was one of the more spiteful in recent memory. Fleming and Smith had a prolonged verbal exchange and Brendon
McCullum and Jacques Kallis had to be separated after clashing mid-pitch.
Viswanath, the former India test batsman, took no action after umpires Russell Tiffin and Doug Cowie assured him no one took it too far.
He said he would speak to both captains before the toss today.
"I will remind them what we discussed at the pre-series meeting," Viswanath said. "Yesterday there were a couple of incidents and I don't want it to get out of hand.
"I'll just mention it, there's still a lot of cricket left in the series."
Both coaches waded in on the issue yesterday. New Zealand's John Bracewell appeared to revel in it.
"I quite like the way they're not allowing themselves to be bullied."
South Africa coach Eric Simons said there was no lingering animosity between the sides.
New Zealand lead the series 4-1.
- NZPA
