Ryder parties anger neighbours

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New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder is in the news for the wrong reason once again, this time because of four-day long parties that are driving his neighbours up the wall.

The injured Black Cap is holding parties every week according to one neighbour who says his friends are vomiting on their homes and doing burnouts down the street.

Neighbour Natalie Stratmore told the Dominion Post that since the Black Caps batsman moved next door a month ago he has held booze fuelled parties every week that start on Thursday and end on Sunday.

"From the moment he moved in here, he's been a pain in the butt," she told the Dominion Post. "It's my lifestyle that's being wrecked. It's just constant."

Ryder has made headlines for alcohol related incidents in the past, most famously when he put hand through a window in a Christchurch bar while drunk last year. He also abused staff at Christchurch Hospital who were working on his injured hand.

And it was revealed last week that Ryder was disciplined by team management for yelling abuse at team manager Dave Currie and breaking a chair after a dismissal in South Africa.

Miss Stratmore said she had seen Ryder drinking, but it was his guests who caused the most problems by vomiting off his deck and urinating against his fence.

"On one occasion the wind... blew the stomach contents of a friend of Mr Ryder's all down the side of our property."

Miss Stratmore told the newspaper that her partner spoke to Ryder about the vomit and the Black Cap apologised before pulling his friend inside. However the partying continued the next weekend.

"I understand being 25, but when you're an international cricket player you'd think he'd pull his head in.

"Cricket is supposed to be a gentleman's game," she said.

But Ryder's manager Aaron Klee has defended the cricketer.

"I've been working with him for 18 months now and the last six weeks is the hardest he's ever worked. I cannot be happier with what he's been doing."

"I don't think there's any indication Jesse is drinking whether it's at all or anything like he has in the past," he said.

Ryder is currently on the sidelines after suffering an adductor injury at the Champions Trophy.