Ryder has officially left the building

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Jesse Ryder is 29.

So the excuse about being young no longer washes.

In fact, there are no more excuses for his behaviour and contempt for New Zealand cricket. That's cricket with a small c, because it's not only the coach, team and management he has thumbed his nose at yet again. It's pretty much all of us.

Ryder has a long list of transgressions and Doug Bracewell cut his foot on glass at a post-game party in March 2013. This time round, he managed to break a bone in his foot at a pub, pre-game.

They have both been fined for going out drinking until 3am in Auckland.

They will not play in the next test against India, but wet bus tickets spring to mind.

It's a privilege to play cricket for your country, and it's a dream lots of young men and women would make spectacular sacrifices for. It does demand a standard of behaviour and self-denial that most of us would not be able to meet, but with that comes the glory, the rewards and hopeful a good deal of self-satisfaction.

Continually humiliating your coach and management team by showing they have no control over yourself is not that level of conduct.

Bracewell is only 23 and there is hope he won't go the way of Ryder.

But Ryder's "poor me" attitude is pathetic; if he answers justified criticism with comments like "New Zealand wants me to fail", then he's doing everything to prove "us" right.

It's unfortunate that the pair's behaviour has tainted a win. There aren't that many in cricket these days.

Ryder has already had his allotted number of lives. His time with New Zealand Cricket must be over.

What a waste.