***Official*** Australia in South Africa 2018

[Black_Warrior]

i just love that we have yet more reasons to talk about anything but the cricket

Yeah you've been saying that during the India series too in 2017. Notice what's common between the two?

 

[shifty_eyes]

https://twitter.com/jerome_k_damon/status/977530950086217734

very ***ual this

Caught with his pants down, literally.

 

[shifty_eyes]

Yep, held our catches, created run it opportunities and basically acted sharp and calm. This series had been nonsense and the South Africans have definitely gotten under our skins. This is possibly the most mentally weak I've seen an Australian side.

Weak with bat and ball too.

 

[duffer]

The new footage looks really bad., looks completely planned.

 

[Bolo]

What's going on there? He had that plastic thing in his pocket and dropped it down his pants because he was worried the umps would check his pockets?

 

[SeamUp]

Perhaps, but this dismissal has happened a few times. Perhaps pitch is a tad two-paced?

For AB, Amla and now Markram and all were in.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

The new footage looks really bad., looks completely planned.

Course it is planned. A player won't go out and ball tamper off their own idea, it is a team plan all along. Every team in history that has been caught have done it as a team plan as was this.

 

[weldone]

Oh ****! Hope this results in at least one year ban....at the very least

And the captain and team management deserve serious punishment too

 

[vicleggie]

Australians caught ball tampering with a bottle cap.

Scumbags

 

[Bijed]

Telling really that the place he instinctively thought of hiding the material was by some other balls

 

[weldone]

****ing cheats

 

[vicleggie]

Lehmann kept Bancroft in the team because he was the "type of character" he liked.

Interesting

 

[srbhkshk]

The ball's a sphere without lines, so no lines have been crossed, idk why people making such big deal outta it.

 

[Spark]

Yeah you've been saying that during the India series too in 2017. Notice what's common between the two?

you not posting in good faith?

 

[Black_Warrior]

Oh ****! Hope this results in at least one year ban....at the very least

And the captain and team management deserve serious punishment too

Lol at 1 year ban. Kohli, Warner, Smith and Du Plessis were caught doing the same thing on camera. Guess who got charged?

Umpires did not even change the ball. They can't possibly ask Bancroft to strip and show what he's hiding.

 

[Black_Warrior]

you not posting in good faith?

Did I just cross the line?

 

[stephen]

"Bancroft applies sandpaper to own balls".

"Thick Bancroft misunderstands instructions to apply sandpaper to ball."

"Bancroft caught tampering with his own balls."

The headline possibilities are endless.

 

[shifty_eyes]

It might have been brain fade

 

[Bijed]

Umpires did not even change the ball. They can't possibly ask Bancroft to strip and show what he's hiding.

They could possibly search by touch, but then they'd be guilty of ball-tampering too

 

[Daemon]

Oh ****! Hope this results in at least one year ban....at the very least

And the captain and team management deserve serious punishment too

It's a 5 run penalty or something isn't it?

Pretty sure plenty of teams have done this but it is rather satisfying that Australia's been caught. Cummins stepping on the ball doesn't seem that accidental now either..