Steve Smith

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/dark-day-for-australian-cricket-as-steve-smith-admits-plan-to-cheat-20180325-p4z63q.html
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Pretty stupid as well trying a stunt like that with so many cameras and using bright yellow tape to carry the grit to the ball, in hindsight, maybe indicative of not the sharpest knife in the drawer. At least Michael Atherton kept the grit in his pocket.

News I heard said Smith & Warner had resigned.  Seems they've only stepped down for the rest of the Third Test

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/43531491

WA pair of Cs

... but they're continuing to play

ACB need to sack 'em, pronto.  Imo.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has also spoken about the issue.

"I am shocked and bitterly disappointed by the news from South Africa," said Turnbull.

"It seems beyond belief the Australian cricket team have been involved in cheating. Our cricketers are role models and cricket is synonymous with fair play. How can our team be engaged in cheating like this? It beggars belief."

Turnbull later added: "I have spoken with David Peever, the chairman of Cricket Australia, and I have expressed to him very clearly and unequivocally my disappointment and concern. He has said to me that Cricket Australia will be responding decisively, as they should.

"It's their responsibility to deal with it, but I have to say that the whole nation, who hold those who wear the baggy green up on a pedestal - about as high as you can get in Australia, certainly higher than any politician, that's for sure - this is a shocking disappointment."

I grew up thinking sportsmen were like Alf Tupper. Look at them now, they'll stoop to anything for an edge.

^^ Won all his races despite existing on a diet of fish & chips

Tape pmsl, sandpaper imho

And running to the track after missing his bus. I switched off from the sports cesspit years ago, I don't feel like I've missed owt.

1 match ban for Smith... Ridiculous

That Bright yellow tape looks just like bright yellow glass paper to me too...

Cheating and Lying = 1 match ban... Should be at least 2 year ban can Never Captain team again.. ABSOLUTE SHAME ON A SPORTING NATION.. (Absolutely hilarious because its the Aussies)

Is this really the #1 news story in the world right now ?

It's not glass paper Emitdeb. It's adhesive tape and they apply it to the wicket to stick grit to it.

Eh....Yeah, Unless someones Hijacked an aeroplane recently...

saddo, have they produced the tape? because i know what it looks like..

Dont take the word of these Aussies... There all lying cheaters.

BBC news even has a BREAKING banner filling half their home page

Its hilarious because it hasnt effected the test match at all, and 2 cricketers trying to cheat a win is number 1 breaking news? What happened to those evil russians? I mean we were on the cusp of nuclear annihilation 8 days ago, now its two brainless cricketers using adhesive tape thats world breaking news?!. In all honestly its quite pathetic

Faf Du Plessis has been found guilty of ball tampering twice by the ICC and never been banned for any matches.

Steve Smith does it once, admits it, gets banned and all hell breaks loose.

Might be dropped from IPL:

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/101234/steven-smith-david-warner-rajasthan-royals-sunrisers-hyderabad-newlands-ball-tampering-australia-cricket-ipl-news

If it was Sachin Tendulkar caught ball tampering the BCCI would claim the match referee was racist and pressure the ICC into overturning the ban