No Surrey are too busy signing Kohli as their overseas to get him used to English conditions ahead of the India series!
No Surrey are too busy signing Kohli as their overseas to get him used to English conditions ahead of the India series!
$1.9m dollars would have bought a lot of sandpaper!Got to be one of the most expensive bans ever - both had 1.9m dollar IPL contracts for this season.
The ICC punishments are a joke and surely now will have to be looked at. In the same series they tried to ban Rabada for 2 games for this until he lawyered up:The ICC only banned Smith for 1 game and no match bans for the other 2!
Others in the set-up have to have known.Sandpaper gate continues it came as no surprise the main criminal was Warner, I can’t believe the bowlers didn’t know .
I can’t see why the ecb are taking so long over Bancroft he should be banned already.
Love how some former aussie players are getting worked up about Smiths 'treatment'. They've never been slow dishing it out but don't seem to like anything coming back at them.And now poor Steve Smith breaks down in tears at his press conference.
Like all bullies...Love how some former aussie players are getting worked up about Smiths 'treatment'. They've never been slow dishing it out but don't seem to like anything coming back at them.
I think this showed who was pulling the strings and it wasn't Smithy. Whilst I have no sympathy for him or Bancroft for that matter as they are old enough to know better and stand up against Warner or Lehmann, I am gutted for him as a cricketer. Full of admiration of his abilities and showed what a captain can do in the ashes.Just watched the Smith conference and it’s fair to say he will not be cheating in a similar manner again....
Hopefully others will also think!
Heard Gillespie talking about it on R5 and he basically said Smith can be a bit naive and easily let. It certainly wasn't Bancroft who instigated it so you're looking at Warner and / or Lehmann.I think this showed who was pulling the strings and it wasn't Smithy.
The difference here is they sat down and had a meeting planning to do it. Its deliberate pre-meditated cheating. From a side that has long made a lot of noise about the behaviour of other sides.Whilst I don’t pity them I do think the ‘stink’ re this is a little manufactured. They were stupid and ‘got found out’. I don’t for one minute think this is the first time the Aussies have done this and for that matter believe all the teams have done the same or similar.
The difference here is they sat down and had a meeting planning to do it. Its deliberate pre-meditated cheating. From a side that has long made a lot of noise about the behaviour of other sides.
As usual there are degrees of cheating or ‘gaining an advantage’. The whole eating sweets, shining the ball are pushing limits but are deemed acceptable however if you have brought something out to rub on the ball it’s a deliberate premeditated attempt to gain that advantageThe difference here is they sat down and had a meeting planning to do it. Its deliberate pre-meditated cheating. From a side that has long made a lot of noise about the behaviour of other sides.
Still all goes back to weak selection practices for last summer's Tests & persistence with batsmen who can't build an innings.Fair play Bairstow and Wood.
Failures all round again though.
Same old same old though isn’t it? Top order again 70% chance of poor innings with a small chance of a decent knock.Now that's miles better!!
Were 164/7. Now 246/7.
Previously were 93/3, 94/4, 94/5!!
Really needed that recovery. Wood on 48!! Barstow on 69.
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