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Anonymous at March 29, 2018 3
Steve Smith and David Warner

Steve Smith and David Warner, captain and vice-captain of the Australian cricket team, have been suspended for one year for their role in the scandal of the match against South Africa in Cape Town. Smith acknowledged that during the same cheated, using a tape to scrape the ball and change its trajectory, after television cameras were caught his teammate Cameron Bancroft, also sanctioned with nine months. The three players have already been sent home from the concentration in South African lands.

All three may participate in club competitions, but not in international tournaments with their selection during the duration of their sanctions. The premeditated trap they used against South Africa has shaken the world of cricket not only in Australia.

"David Warner will not occupy relevant positions in the future," said the Australian cricket team. While Smith and Bancroft must wait two years to do it again, and "even then it will depend on acceptance by the fans," he added. In addition, each of them must complete one hundred hours of community services before being eligible again.

Also Read: The Scandalous Trap That Has Deeply Disappointed Australia

Smith and Bancroft have been found guilty of knowing the cheating plan, but according to the Australian Federation's investigations, Warner would have been the instigator.

"The Federation understands the anger of the fans and the Australian community about these events as they go against the integrity and reputation of Australian cricket and sport and the sanctions must reflect that," said David Peever, president of the association.

"They are significant penalties for professional players and this body has not imposed them lightly. We hope that after the suspension period players will be able to play the sport they love again and rebuild their careers" he said.
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Anonymous at March 28, 2018 3
Australia captain Steve Smith

Australian squad captain Steve Smith, vice-president David Warner and player Cameron Bancroft, have been sent home from South Africa as a result of their involvement in the team's attempt to cheat on Saturday, during a test game against South Africa Series, the most prestigious game formula for sport. So they will not play in the next match between the two national teams - the tournament is made of different matches - which will start on Friday in Johannesburg. Smith will be replaced by the player Tim Paine in the role of captain.

In short, the scandal in which the three players are involved concerned the attempt to secretly tamper the ball with which they were disputing the game against South Africa. This attempted tampering was taken by the cameras and that's why the managers had to admit it.

For now, Smith, Warner and Bancroft have not been suspended or driven out by the national cricket team, but it is not excluded that in the next there may be serious repercussions on their career for this scandal. Australia coach, Darren Lehmann, who according to Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland had nothing to do with trying to cheat, will not leave his place.
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Anonymous at March 28, 2018 0
Australia Cricket Team captain Steve Smith

A piece of tape and a whole sport is shaken. In Australia, where cricket is king, the captain of the Australian team is caught in a cheating scandal. The reason? This piece of ribbon, to change its trajectory.

In the Commonwealth, cricket is king. The sport of bat attracts more than one billion and a half of followers, around the world and in particular in Australia, India, South Africa... No wonder that when a scandal explodes in this sport of bat, it shakes a whole country.

That's what is happening right now in Australia, where one of the newspapers is focused on cheating on his national team captain, Steve Smith. Sunday, during a test match against South Africa, the most prestigious format, over five days, he admitted to cheating while trying to destabilize the trajectory of the ball, with tape, with the complicity of his teammate Cameron Bancroft. Except that the subterfuge was caught by the cameras before the latter tries to hide the action by hiding the adhesive in his pants.

Also Read: The Australian Cricket Team Caught In The Act Of Cheating

A national tragedy for Australians, which even pushed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene. He evokes a bitter disappointment. It completely defies understanding that the Australian cricket team is involved in cheating. In the eyes of Australians, the captaincy of the national cricket team as prestigious as his prime minister. Seeing such a maneuver at the head of the national team, especially in a sport of "Gentlemen" is a source of disappointment, far from the Australian mind.

The Australian press has seized the case, claiming the shame of such a case, henceforth nicknamed "SandPaperGate". Even the old legends of cricket are indignant. They are nearly 450 to have worn the green cap of the team, which is considered an honor. Former pitcher Rodney Hogg lamented on Twitter: "Unfortunately, it's pure cheating and Steve Smith has to resign from his position."

Jamie Fuller, chief executive of Skins, sportswear manufacturer, "Cricket Australia (CA), the governing body of sport, must show good governance in the face of scandal. If they do not, there will not be only the national team that will be shamed. It will be you all. It will be cricket. It will be us all."

For the moment, Smith has been given a suspension match by the International Cricket Council. But the case should keep talking.

Especially since sport is extremely popular in Commonwealth countries. Thus, for example, in 2017, the Anglo-Welsh Cricket Federation, gave up the rights of the competition of its national team for nearly 1.25 billion euros.
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Anonymous at March 27, 2018 0
Australia Ball Tampering

Australia is in a "shock" state. In a country where cricket is the national sport and captain of the national team of this sport is considered the second most important job in the country after the prime minister, the crude confession of Steve Smith, a player who occupies currently that position, has been a real blow.

Smith acknowledged on Sunday that he had cheated, and what's worse, he had done it premeditatedly. The Australian player confessed that he had planned to alter the state of the ball to change his trajectory during a game against South Africa played on Saturday in Cape Town.

His partner Cameron Bancroft used an adhesive tape to collect abrasive particles from the field and rub the ball with them to scrape it and make its unpredictable trajectory. However the cameras chased him doing it, but when he realized he tried to hide the tape by putting it in his pants.

Smith confessed the facts in a press conference that ended up causing a real scandal in Australia, where the controversial episode has jumped to all media.

Also Read: The Australian Cricket Team Caught In The Act Of Cheating

Even the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, acknowledged being "shocked" and having suffered a "bitter disappointment". "It is completely impossible to assume that the Australian team is involved in a trap," he said. And is that cricket, already considered a sport of gentlemen, is more than a sport in Australia, rooted in the soul and ideals of the country.

Putting on the green cap of the national team is considered sacred in Australia, as it is an honor that only 450 people have been able to enjoy. That is why Turnbull asked the Australian Cricket Federation ('Cricket Australia') for a quick and forceful action to punish those who are responsible.

The trap and its subsequent confession have already had consequences among the sponsors of the Australian team, who have transmitted their discomfort. For example Jamie Fuller, executive director of the specialized clothing brand 'Skins', who on an advertising page in the press wrote that "cricket is part of our national soul and defines us, what is right and what is not, what that is good and what is wrong. Cricket Australia must act. If it does not, it will not be only the national team that will be covered in shame, it will all be you, it will be cricket, we will be all of us ».

Other sponsors, including Qantas Airways, Sanitarium cereals, Lion brewer, sportswear brand ASICS, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Toyota, said Monday that they are studying their relationship with the Australian national team after the scandal and waiting for the investigation of 'Cricket Australia'.

Before any future decisions that the Australian federation can make, Steve Smith was stripped of the national captaincy on Sunday and suspended for a match by the International Cricket Council (ICC), and on Monday it became known that the player has left a He also agreed to stop being the captain of the Rajasthan Royals, the franchise of the Indian cricket league where he plays.

For his part, Cameron Bancroft, who was hunted by the cameras carrying out the trap designed by his captain and a group of players of the Australian team, received three penalty points and a fine of seventy-five percent of his income for the party but escaped a suspension.








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Anonymous at March 26, 2018 1
Cameron Bancroft of the Australian cricket team


In Australia, cricket is the king of sports and the national team is ready for anything to win a match. To go too far, like Saturday, March 24 when the Australians tried a rough cheating to lose their opponents, South Africa, during a match in Cape Town. The scene may seem surreal, but the scandal is immense.

Everything happened live, under the eyes of the cameras, reports our correspondent in Melbourne, Caroline Lafargue. As South Africa leads, Cameron Bancroft, a player on the Australian team, pulls a piece of yellow, dust-coated tape from his pocket. A sort of improvised sandpaper that he intends to use to sand the ball and change its trajectory. All this to surprise the South African drummer.

Problem: One of the referees notices the little carousel of Cameron Bancroft, who panics and tries to hide his yellow tape in his pants. The match is then immediately stopped. Then follows a long meeting behind closed doors, explains our correspondent in Johannesburg, Noé Hochet-Bodin.

Pursued by the International Federation, Cameron Bancroft acknowledges the fault: " I saw an opportunity to use tape so that the ball could stick to pellets on the ground and so that it could change direction, " says the player.

"I'm not proud of that"

A premeditated " opportunity ", as Steve Smith, the captain of this Australian team, admits in a press conference. " The team knew it. We talked about it at lunch. I'm not proud of that. It's not in the spirit of sport. This raises questions about my integrity and the integrity of the team as a whole, "the athlete apologizes before" promising "that such a situation will not happen again.

A mea culpa that does not prevent the Australian Federation of Cricket to conduct the investigation and to commit to cleaning the team. For the moment, only the International Cricket Council has intervened against the cheats: he suspended the captain for a match and imposed a big fine on Cameron Bancroft. In Australia, humiliation is in any case total.
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