The All Blacks say prop Owen Franks place in Test rugby world record book should come with some fine print.Franks is 80 minutes away from the longest career without scoring a try.This weeks Rugby Championship Test against the Springboks has a touch of desperation about it for a far more unlikely source as well, with prolific winger Julian Savea never having crossed the stripe against South Africa.Savea has scored 42 tries in 46 Tests, yet he has been unable to touch down in six games against the Springboks.But its Franks whos been the focus ahead of Saturdays match in Christchurch, the loosehead prop level with retired Italian front-rower Salvatore Perugini on 83 Tests without a five-pointer - meaning the New Zealander will own the record outright if he fails to score on the weekend.All Blacks teammates can see the funny side of the record but also feel some empathy for the 28-year-old. They say his role in countless tries to others goes ignored.Fellow-Cantabrian Ryan Crotty believes Franks should feel like a central cog in New Zealands attack because of his scrummaging prowess.I dont know how many set-piece tries the All Blacks have scored off a solid scrum platform, Crotty said.Im sure he takes satisfaction in that. Its acknowledged, what he does for this team.Since Franks debut against Italy in 2009, the All Blacks have racked up 383 tries.Crotty admits there were some chuckles when Franks bench replacement Charlie Faumuina scored moments after coming on during last weeks win over Argentina.It could well have been Owen if he was still on the field.If we see him on a nice line this week, well be looking for him and try to send him through under the sticks. Calgary Flames Pro Shop . 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We would like to clarify that this decision was reached due to a culmination of few factors and issues, which we feel obliged to notify our stakeholders.PBCC feels that the spirit of alleviating domestic cricket standard especially the longer format is not aligned with the current editions of BCL which we have formally communicated to the BCB. We are deeply saddened by the circumstances that tantamounted (sic) to this critical decision, but at the same time feel that it was timely to do so as a matter of protest.BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury said that they were aware of Prime Banks issues but they would only decide on the matter once the BCB president Nazmul Hassan returns to the country.They (Prime Bank) have raised some issues and informed us. The BCB president is out of country and we will decide after he returns to the country, Nizamuddin said.Taanjil further explained that the lack of star players in their South Zone franchise due to several reasons contributed to the pull out.ddddddddddddThe presence of national team players in BCL is far and few, often getting missed out due to holiday, international duties and injuries or rest periods, he wrote. That means we never got the full strength of our zonal team as on pen and paper.The youngsters [are] mostly inexperienced and few senior players miss out on the opportunity to play with national capped players.The standard of ground and quality/conditions of cricket in general is very poor. Starting with facilities and non cricketing season to name a few.He mentioned that budgetary allocation was also limiting them from financing more than two teams participation. Already their teams played in the Dhaka Premier League and last seasons BCL, which spilled over to 2016. But Tanjil informed that they were pulling out only for this season.We have not retired our franchise, we merely declined to participate in upcoming edition citing the above mentioned reasons, he wrote.The BCL was supposed to be held from September 20 but now that the Afghanistan ODIs have been scheduled from September 25, it has thrown the tournament into uncertainty as the BCL was being scheduled as a preparatory tournament for the England tour. ' ' '