Cricket

Lehmann is an utter horror of a person, he has to have been involved in some capacity. Him getting his team to do something like this just seems a perfect fit.

A lot more questions need to be asked though. As I said a couple of days ago, no bowler was involved? So none of them looked at that ball and thought to ask later on "ball looked a tad odd today guys". This wouldn't have been a one off. Nobody from England would have suspected it hence why cameras weren't looking for it, but the fact they odious tit Warner was bragging about it added to the fact that they seemed to get reverse swing straight away suggests its pretty obvious it went on during the ashes.

Intrigued to see how this australia bowling attack now copes without added assistance.

I would love to know why the Australian board have had to hand out a much more severe punishment than the ICC, who's punishment stance was laughable. A year really is only what two or three series, so not a massive punishment all in all.
 
Think about it, career lost over a bit of tape sandpaper rubbing a cricket ball. Almost seems laughable.
Corrected.

'Bancroft was caught tampering with the ball during the 322-run third Test defeat by South Africa, with Cricket Australia confirming he used sandpaper on it after being shown how by Warner.

An investigation found Smith and Bancroft had made "misleading public comments" on Saturday when they instead claimed yellow tape was used instead.'

That's surely the end of Warner's test career.

The presser after the game was a pathetic attempt at damage limitation which made the situation even worse.
 
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A lot of people are saying it was disgraceful how Smith was harassed by the media going through the airport today to get his flight back to Australia but to be frank I don't have much sympathy (though it was ridiculous him needing all those security guards). He sat there laughing his head his off as Jonny Bairstow was made to feel so embarrassed and uncomfortable by the media in having to explain that farcical headbutt incident. Not nice when the boot's on the other foot, is it?

Lehmann saying he fears for the banned players' well-being and mental states because all the stress this has caused? He and the rest of his team mocked poor Jonathon Trott when he had to leave the Ashes tour in 2013/14 with mental health problems. Such an arrogant, unlikeable and disrespectful team. This episode has to have taught them some humility.
 
Dirty cheating Aussies. Us Sri Lankans would never do such a thing.

Michael Atherton, England, 1994, naughty.
Sachin Tendulkar, India, 2001, naughty.
Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan, 2003, naughty.
Stuart Broad, England, 2010, naughty.
 

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