Tamper-gate (Those naughty Aussie cricketers...)

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  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Aussies look suspiciously like they've been caught ball tampering in a not very subtle way
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2018/03/24/australias-cameron-bancroft-caught-ball-tampering-controversy/
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    Well didn’t they send all the criminals to Australia years ago and now coming back to bite us
  • ClaretandBlueforLifeClaretandBlueforLife
    Cuz1 said:

    Well didn’t they send all the criminals to Australia years ago and now coming back to bite us

    Er actually some went of their own freewill ;ok
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    On prison ships ? I get some went my parents did
  • ClaretandBlueforLifeClaretandBlueforLife
    I mean yes in was a penal colony at first but as agriculture became less profitable, more people emigrated as free citizens as my Dads Uncle did before WW1.
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    as long ago as that didn’t realise they went that far back
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    buffybegood said:

    Aussies look suspiciously like they've been caught ball tampering in a not very subtle way
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2018/03/24/australias-cameron-bancroft-caught-ball-tampering-controversy/

    Be interesting to see how long a ban Smith gets.
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    And he says he isn't going to step down as captain!

    Despite admitting it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/43526870

    How can he possibly imagine he is a suitable person to be captain now?
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    Blatant cheating and probably done it before and don’t believe the coach didn’t know or wasn’t aware of it award the test and ban the whole team for three tests
  • IronHerbIronHerb


    Made me laugh ;lol
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from the Aussies, Bancroft and Smith should get proper bans not demerit points that may lead to a 1 match ban. This was premeditated cheating, nothing less.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    I love the bit here by Shane Warne where he say "A lot of the Australian sides I played in never did anything like that".

    Surely that suggests that he's admitting some of the sides he played in DID do stuff like that. ;hmm

    http://www.skysports.com/cricket/news/12040/11302469/australia-caught-up-in-ball-tampering-suspicion-during-south-africa-test
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    Also why has Darren Lehman wrote to the South African Cricket Board about some things that have been said to their players by the crowd?

    Is this the same Darren Lehman who asked the whole of Australia to sledge Stuart Broad and make him cry just because during the series before Broad had the temerity to not walk?

    Australia can give it the biggun but now can't take it. ;lol
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited March 2018
    Smith and Warner have, quite rightly imo, stepped down

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/43531491
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    One test suspension is so wrong for blatant cheating
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Not to mention the three demerit points.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    That's the ICC. I reckon Cricket Australia will give him a much bigger penalty and not just him.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Being castled for a paltry 107 can’t have helped the baggy green spirits either

    ;lol
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    The icc should have banned then for two years it’s cheating plain and simple if you drug cheat you get two years no difference to me cheating to try gain an advantage grow a spine icc and ban him and the vile Warner at the same time
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    I read somewhere that in 2005 a fair amount of research went into which type of mint would be best for shining the ball by England in advance of the Ashes. The ball shiner in chief I believe was Trescothick. He along with others were lauded as heroes and MBE’s followed. Not in any way defending Smith and co, however there will be numerous past examples of players trying to gain an advantage by questionable means.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    That is using saliva, that is not the same as having a meeting to discuss ball tampering, deciding to actually do it, then getting the youngest player in the team, Bancroft is 8 tests into his career, to carry out the act.

    Then after seeing it actually happen on the big screen, someone from the balcony sends a message to Peter Handscomb to come onto the pitch and tell Bancroft that he has been seen. He then hides the tape in his pants and then blatantly lies to Umpires saying he only has a piece of cloth in his pocket, all under the watchful eyes of Smith, the captain.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Not only did Bancroft show the umpires an empty 'soft' glasses case, he wasn't even wearing sunglasses. ;whistle
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    Cricket Australia should rid him and warner from the team and if proved the coach as well, to listen to the Aussie commentator cry whilst broadcasting says it all to me
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Preston

    I personally think it is form of trying to gain an unadvantage by questionable means. Maybe they should ban taking sweets onto the field - I see no reason other than trying to induce an advantage why you would need to tale sweets anyway
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    A one ban test is criminal for what they have done, players get banned for YEARS for fixing and bringing the game into disrepute. They should both be banned from cricket for more than one test. A year at least.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    The one test ban is the ICC stipulated punishment for ball tampering. The Australian Cricket Board have the power to do what they want.
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    Good a year or two for me nothing less
  • KuchinghammerKuchinghammer
    Make the punishment equal match-fixing, frisk players before they go out to field, and have VAR to spot infringements immediately. Red card. Ball-tampering ends. The ICC have missed a big chance to clean up cricket (but sports bodies are not known for their intelligence.)
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