The coloured cricketer, now doing duty for South Africa's Free State provincial side, came away with a black eye and bad bruising after an attack by a group of whites targetting him and white team-mate Chris Craven in the early hours of the morning.

Craven's teeth suffered extensive chipping, and he required 23 stitches in his face, according to reports.

The brawl began when patrons of Bloemfontein's Sportsman's Pub jibed at the two cricketers.

Dr Ali Bacher, MD of the UCBSA, expressed himself as ``distressed'' by the ``disgraceful incident''.