ALASTAIR COOK has admitted that England’s players had suspicions Australia were ball-tampering during the Ashes. Former captain Cook has finally gone public with a view that has niggled away at the England team in private for the past few months. It comes with Australian cricket still in turmoil following the sandpaper scandal in Cape Town […]
BANNED Australia trio Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft are wanted by Surrey despite their ball-tampering scandal. Warner and Smith were banned for a year, with Bancroft just nine months for the roles in the incident in South Africa. With the three stars set to miss out on plenty of cricket in that time, […]
AUSTRALIA’S cricket union wants the three Sandpapergate cheats’ bans reduced — because they all CRIED. The news came as the Aussies fell to their heaviest Test runs loss since 1934. Steve Smith and David Warner got one-year bans and Cameron Bancroft nine months after the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. But as the Aussies lost […]
AUSTRALIA’S ball-tampering shame hit them hard out in the middle – as the replacements for their disgraced trio all flopped in a Fourth Test batting collapse. Queensland openers Matthew Renshaw and Joe Burns, plus No 4 Peter Handscomb, hit 12 runs between them after being recalled for skipper Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft. […]
YOU would need a heart of stone not to feel some sympathy for Steve Smith. His emotional media conference at Sydney airport should be the first step on a road to redemption and regaining some of the affection and respect of the Aussie public. This, remember, is a man who less than three months ago […]