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  • #16
    One would have to ask the seemingly obvious question. Is this the price for the professionalisation of the game. Huge contracts for playing a game ... yes folks a game. Irrespective of the win or loss they get paid and paid more than most brain surgeons. Go figure that out and then start the consistent, blame shifting, victim stancing, attitudes that the good public are paying for.

    Oh please .... because someone else did it then we aren't so bad .... 'cause everyone else did it. Ask Lance Armstrong. 2.5 cents worth and that is goof value ... lol

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    • #17
      Originally posted by flynnaus View Post
      I predict that Bancroft will be banned for a few matches but Smith and anyone else in the leadership or coaching team involved in this deplorable decision will banned for up to year.
      Bancroft 9 mths, Smith and Warner 12. The hardest thing for them to overcome is the damage to their reputation but they are quality players.

      https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...28-p4z6s7.html

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      • #18
        Originally posted by bigdaddy View Post
        Howdy Yelta,

        Declaration...I'm an unqualified, armchair, fairweather Aussie cricket fan...But I do like to see Australia win...

        There are other countries and cricketers from those countries which after due process have been found guilty of ball tampering and penalties were handed out..If the Ausies concerned are found guilty after due process then the same penalties should apply IMO....
        If we applied those penalties they would be playing next week. Du Plessis (the SA captain) has been twice found guilty of ball tampering, and has missed a grand total of about one match for it. Neither the ICC, nor any national cricket board has taken a significant stand in the past. Ask Waqar Younis.

        A significant penalty is deserved and has been applied.

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        • #19
          After seeing and hearing about the ball tampering, which is cheating, and what should happen to them.
          These grubs should be treated like drug cheats, in most sports it's a 4 year ban!

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          • #20
            Originally posted by topshot View Post
            After seeing and hearing about the ball tampering, which is cheating, and what should happen to them.
            These grubs should be treated like drug cheats, in most sports it's a 4 year ban!
            Yeh, I'm not sure it is exactly on all fours with an athlete making a considered decision to take performance enhancing drugs, and I don't see too many copping a 4 year suspension in practice. It is certainly not right, and deserves a significant penalty (I think they've got it about right), but people have been defacing cricket balls for many years, and until now the worst suspension for those has been 1 or 2 games. The difference here is that the culprits admitted to doing it. Those who simply say 'I didn't mean to do that' or similar get basically nothing. Nobody in their right mind in future will fess up. They'll tell the same porkies and cop a slap over the wrist with a wet newspaper.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
              Yeh, I'm not sure it is exactly on all fours with an athlete making a considered decision to take performance enhancing drugs, and I don't see too many copping a 4 year suspension in practice. It is certainly not right, and deserves a significant penalty (I think they've got it about right), but people have been defacing cricket balls for many years, and until now the worst suspension for those has been 1 or 2 games. The difference here is that the culprits admitted to doing it. Those who simply say 'I didn't mean to do that' or similar get basically nothing. Nobody in their right mind in future will fess up. They'll tell the same porkies and cop a slap over the wrist with a wet newspaper.
              Consistency for the crime is important IMO, I agree the penalty seems about right on the international scene, maybe somewhat harsh for Bancroft...It does seem to be unfair that this is the highest penalty handed out for ball tampering and the others only got a slap on the wrist...

              I'll now watch with interest to see if Australia has the balls to hand out harsher penalties for them seeming they have now tarnished Australia's impeccable record bringing Australian cricket into disrepute...

              Cheers.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by bigdaddy View Post
                I'll now watch with interest to see if Australia has the balls to hand out harsher penalties for them seeming they have now tarnished Australia's impeccable record bringing Australian cricket into disrepute...
                That did happen. ICC handed out one or two match bans. CA suspended Smith and Warner for a year and they have forbidden from taking part in the lucrative Indian tournament, costing them several million bucks.
                The players involved have been heavily punished and I doubt that they will do it again. Time to let it blow over and give the players a chance to serve their time and be forgiven and return to being strong contributors to our national team.
                Perhaps introduce rules to limit the opportunity like returning the ball to the umpire between overs.

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                • #23
                  Yes, very embarrassing... but when it comes to how low can you go my "favorite" in sports has got to be this one - 19 seconds of extremely embarrassing human behavior:
                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff7RPnWRkIE

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                  • #24
                    Aussie's sprung ball tampering.

                    Originally posted by knastoer View Post
                    ...when it comes to how low can you go my "favorite" in sports has got to be this one - 19 seconds of extremely embarrassing human behavior
                    In my medically uneducated opinion both the trainer and player are suffering from a bad case of feinting goat syndrome 🤣[emoji92]

                    Exhibit A

                    https://youtu.be/YI4hzzepEcI

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