Australian Cricket after the Ball Tampering Scandal — nemcoblog.wordpress.com

On a Sunday morning, the Australian’s woke to the terrible news that their cricket team, which was previously viewed as deities, was now in the center of a cheating storm during a test match in South Africa. Former Australian Captain David Warner was reportedly coaching 25-year-old batsman Cameron Bancroft how to use sandpaper to illegally rub the ball in pursuit of an advantageous reverse swing. Cricket Australia banned Captain Smith and his deputy Warner for a year and stripped them of their positions while banning Bancroft for a nine-month period for the incident. The bans and the players’ are being criticized by several leading cricket figures. The union has now queried the “severity and proportionality” of the punishments. Warner will not be considered for any future leading positions while Smith and Bancroft have been banned from captaining Australian cricket team for two years.

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