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Everyone knows the likes of Warner, Smith, Starc, Hazelwood have high opinions of themselves by the way they rant and try and intimidate their opposition....hands on hips stuff, smart arse looks etc....got no probs with that, no different to Kyrigos body language and racquet throwing....but cheating...so blatantly and thinking no one would notice....Aust bowling attack has been labeled world class...best for a decade or so...why the need to cheat?......perhaps Bailey might be an interim skipper for integrity purposes.....show the cricketing world some remorse at least....if that means suspending, fining and demoting your best batsmen/ bowlers so be it....short term pain for long term gain

anchorman wrote: While not condoning the fact that they were complete idiots for doing what they did.,there is an old saying
"Let he who has not sinned ,cast the fist stone"
Saffies,guilty,Poms,guilty, Pakistan,guilty, India Guilty.
And let us not forget that the Saffies had a worse one, a player who was prepared to lose games for monetary gain.
Total fools all of them CA included.I am not sure where a game of cricket can take away a persons integrity.
Idiots for sure.

Wholeheartedly agree anchor. While I’m ashamed and embarrassed to be an Aussie cricket follower, the twits must be.punished in the same manner as any other world cricketer. All we want is evenness in the punishment.

1 year suspension & $50k fine for Smith, Warner, Bancroft & anyone else who agreed to that premeditated cheating.. Mitch Marsh take over the reigns as captain.. what a fkn disgrace the aussies are..

Smith and Warner have been stood down and Tim Paine will be interim captain for the rest of this test.
Apparently Smith and Warner may be sent home after the test.

Sacked as captain of the Rajanstan royals also, getting costly for Mr Smith

To those who knocked shit out of those who didn't fully support the Australian Cricket team I congratulate you. Freedom of speech is is a given right. I never liked the smart alec in Davvy Warner But he was in the leadership team & should have also known that blatant cheating is not the Australian thing. Smith & all involved should be disqualified from the team. We screamed about "De Kock" & now they scream about the Balls. This is on the world stage unlike Essendon F/C .. Where are those knockers? (probably supporting Fremantle)

S42: well done. Why is Mark Nicollas running a pro-- Australia line? In what way would, as he suggestted 10 minutes, a victory by South Africa in the series be hollow? The cricket community is full of sycophants even still.

He and the other sycophants need to get this throught their head, and it was something admitted by Smith: Australia cheatted because they were not good to bowl the South Africans out.

premiership hangover wrote: Smith and Warner have been stood down and Tim Paine will be interim captain for the rest of this test.
Apparently Smith and Warner may be sent home after the test.

Sacked as captain of the Rajanstan royals also, getting costly for Mr Smith

Fair enough too. You’d expect this from the zuids , pakis Indians and maybe the Poms, but not from fromus....disgraceful. I’d love to know what penalties were handed out to out to the others that did this. I guess it doesn’t matter, our lads need to be hit with the maximum so we can set the standard and hope the ICC has the balls to follow......I doubt it tho, they’re shit scared of India.

Should be a 6 month ban for Bancroft (fucked his own test career, don’t like his chances of playing for Australia again and wouldn’t surprise me if WA tried to move him on)
Smith & Warner should be 12 months bans and anyone else involved in the planning get a minimum of 3 months
Those suspension should start from then start of the next tour. Send the disgraced players home now and send over some replacements.
After Smith’s complaining about the handling of the recent incident he was involved in how poor does this look

Leather Stops wrote: To those who knocked shit out of those who didn't fully support the Australian Cricket team I congratulate you. Freedom of speech is is a given right. I never liked the smart alec in Davvy Warner But he was in the leadership team & should have also known that blatant cheating is not the Australian thing. Smith & all involved should be disqualified from the team. We screamed about "De Kock" & now they scream about the Balls. This is on the world stage unlike Essendon F/C .. Where are those knockers? (probably supporting Fremantle)

This must really hit home especially with the footy team you support, at least CA won't try to sweep it under the carpet lol.

Interesting the ICC have suspended Smith for one test and Bancroft is free to play with 3 demerit points and fined 75% of his match fee, I don't believe they've ever suspended anyone for ball tampering, shows how seriously they take it, CA will probably hand out their own sanctions to satisfy the beying public.

If CA are fair dinkum Warner and Smith will be sanctioned and Boof should lose his job., Bancrofts sanction from the ICC should be enough , FAF , Philander and Atherton never missed games for ball tampering so why should Bancroft.