******Cricket Thread******

[Dr Jacoby]

Australia caught ball-tampering live on SKY. Utterly disgraceful.

 

[somethingelse]

whats yellow and looks like sandpaper,a sunglass cover?

 

[Henkeman]

Australia caught ball-tampering live on SKY. Utterly disgraceful.

The beauty of it was the 12th man coming out to tell Bancroft he'd been caught and trying to hide it down his trousers. Blatant implication of the whole team being involved in it.

Umpires won't take action because they're terrified of labelling players cheats (they are cheating) so will leave it to the match referee. But really there should have been a ball change and 5 penalty runs.

 

[mccity]

They were on Warner's case for tampering in the first Test but it seemed tenuous. It's all adding up now.

 

[waspish]

Funny they keep that shit ball with no seam but then try and tamper with the ball

 

[discopop]

Smith is a repulsive twat at the best of times, he should stand down for this

 

[City Raider]

This is going to be huge.

 

[blueinsa]

This is going to be huge.

Rightly so as well.

Fessing up isnt enough and neither is an apology and a promise it has never happened before and wont happen again because those words are hollow and meaningless.

Lengthy bans needed.

 

[blue cigar]

Would imagine smith will step down for this. About as bad as it gets and no way the coach was unaware.
Expect tv companies are trawling through previous game footage to look at bancroft.

 

[waspish]

Quite remarkable that press conference, one way of getting Test match cricket back on the map.