🏏 Fiddling with balls

Smith banned from the next test. Warner to be Dillian Whyte’s next opponent.

(I might have mis-heard one of the above)

That’s the ICC Penalty for a “minor” offence.

The Aussie public / Goverment / cricket Australia will look at reputations damage and sponsorship harm.

Doubt they will be so lenient

I once had my balls tampered with by an Austrailian a not unpleasant but very confusing experience.

Warner showed England players how he tampered with the ball during the Ashes…

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Plus…Handy racial-slur sledging phrase book. :lou_lol:

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Plus packet of tissues to cry into while filing a complaint if someone makes a comment back at you

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Not surprisingly the global media read my post :lou_eyes_to_sky: and have dug deeper…

Seems the Sponsors will end up being the force for change in all of this as they queue up to issue statements of condemnation.

Welcome to the world of Trevor Chappell you idiots

Their world continues to crumble

‘He’s gone rogue’: David Warner ‘drank Champagne with non-cricket mates as the ball tampering scandal erupted and removed himself from a WhatsApp group with the rest of the Australian team’

  • **A source reportedly told Fox Sports the team were angry at the ex vice captain **
  • **They believe David Warner has ‘gone rogue’ since the cheating scandal erupted **
  • He also allegedly removed himself from the team’s WhatsApp group chat

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Hahaha

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Shameful (partial) cover up by Cricket Australia :lou_angry:

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Smith and Warner both banned from international cricket for a year, and Bancroft for nine months. Presumably they’ll still be able to play other cricket, but that will depend on who wants them now. Warner in particular has very rapidly achieved pariah status - I heard a report this morning in which it was mentioned that other Aussie players have said they won’t play in the same team as him.

Warner was apparently very much the instigator of the ball-tampering (and it was sandpaper and not tape that was used), while Smith did nothing to stop it. What a pair of arrogant twats.

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The ban includes the IPL. They can only play club cricket.

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$1 million IPL Contracts torn up.

That serves them right.

Problem for Somerset as they’d contracted Bancroft.

But the worst is that they clearly LIED in their statement about it being tape.

Unbelievable

No one except CA believes Lehmann knew nothing about it. In the very unlikely event that this is true, how shit does that make him at his job?

Should be a fun atmosphere at the test on Friday with seriously embarrassed Aussie fans and rightly angry Saffers. Fuck him.

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Also heard the question of who knew what asked of any of the bowlers that came into contact with a ball with sandpaper marks on it.

Surely they all knew?

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Outside of Australia, i’m sure all cricket fans are secretly loving this :laughing:

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