Lehamnn seems to have avoided any flak from this thus far, bloody laughable. The problem is that there's no shades of grey in terms of what constitutes ball tampering as an offense, we kind of went over this earlier on the thread but most agree that this feels a lot worse than most of the previous high profile cases.
But if they all defend Lehmann then I don't know what you do. In terms of the Warne thing it depends on what or who you believe, certainly not as bad as match or even spot fixing though for me.
He refused to say the word cheated when prompted. I guess you can't really expect him to say that.
Again though, 5 to 10 seems a little harsh for someone having a little pick at the seam, whereas it also seems maybe lenient for this. If it were up to me i'd always punish any form of it, but maybe would add levels based on how much effort went into it.
I think Smith should miss half the tests this year at least. Making a rookie player do his cheating is awful
Yea I suppose its a sliding scale.
We weren't there, but my guess is they didn't make him do it, rather he would have volunteered - with the aim of ingratiating himself with the leaders
But Smith should have protected him from himself. What type of culture is that?
To even try it knowing how many camera are on you and how the series has gone thus far speaks of a level of arrogance so off the charts it's mind boggling. Has to be a serious humbling!
The fact that Bancroft admitted to feeling anxious "only" because of the cameras speaks volumes by itself. So no cameras and they'd be carrying on without remorse, is it? That press conference couldn't have gone any worse.
Yes but as I noted previously, anyone who follows Australian politics knows no one listens to Turnbull in the first place
Who polishes/ roughs up the ball often depends on where they’re fielding. I haven’t seen the footage but if Bancroft is at mid off or mid on it makes sense they’d get him to do it.