"TrouserGate" - Australian Cricketers Caught Ball Tampering

[Pushka]

I am saddened and blown away by the Australian Cricket Team activities in South Africa. Steven Smith must be sacked. He thinks it’s up to him. Seriously? Maybe sack any of the Leadership Team involved. They asked the newest player to do the deed. Cheating. And plain stupid. It’s worse than the underarm bowling incident. At least that was legal at the time and out in the open.

 

[Cossie]

I am saddened and blown away by the Australian Cricket Team activities in South Africa. Steven Smith must be sacked. He thinks it’s up to him. Seriously? Maybe sack any of the Leadership Team involved. They asked the newest player to do the deed. Cheating. And plain stupid. It’s worse than the underarm bowling incident. At least that was legal at the time and out in the open.

Agree totally, time for a broom to be put through the whole setup, including the selectors, bloody drongos..................

 

[VPS]

I am saddened and blown away by the Australian Cricket Team activities in South Africa. Steven Smith must be sacked. He thinks it’s up to him. Seriously? Maybe sack any of the Leadership Team involved. They asked the newest player to do the deed. Cheating. And plain stupid. It’s worse than the underarm bowling incident. At least that was legal at the time and out in the open.

I'm embarrassed to be an Australian cricket fan - WTF were they thinking.

 

[JohnK]

I am saddened and blown away by the Australian Cricket Team activities in South Africa. Steven Smith must be sacked.

Sledging and now ball tampering.

No need for Smith to step down. From memory Faf du Plessis did similar a few years ago.

Embarassing and disappointing.

 

[TonyHancock]

What a tattyfilarious day. First I discover, thanks to an article in the UK's Daily Telegraph, that the UK's third biggest selling single of the 1960's is Ken Dodd's "Tears".......beaten only by "She Loves You" and "I want to Hold Your Hand".

Then I here the wonderful news from South Africa...first up Lehmann utterly embarrasses himself about the South African crowds giving stick to Australian players.....after he himself called for Australian crowds to make Stuart Broad's life misery....and then the whole sorry ball tampering affair.

The day has only been tempered by discovering that Mull of Kintyre was the UK's biggest selling single of the 1970's.

 

[kpc]

Sledging and now ball tampering.

No need for Smith to step down. From memory Faf du Plessis did similar a few years ago.

Embarassing and disappointing.

I pay for Foxtel but I don't bother watching the cricket these days

 

[Pushka]

Agree totally, time for a broom to be put through the whole setup, including the selectors, bloody drongos..................

Sledging and now ball tampering.

No need for Smith to step down. From memory Faf du Plessis did similar a few years ago.

Embarassing and disappointing.

i think it’s a degree worse. He got someone else to do the dirty work. The last guy on the team takes the fall.

What a tattyfilarious day. First I discover, thanks to an article in the UK's Daily Telegraph, that the UK's third biggest selling single of the 1960's is Ken Dodd's "Tears".......beaten only by "She Loves You" and "I want to Hold Your Hand".

Then I here the wonderful news from South Africa...first up Lehmann utterly embarrasses himself about the South African crowds giving stick to Australian players.....after he himself called for Australian crowds to make Stuart Broad's life misery....and then the whole sorry ball tampering affair.

The day has only been tempered by discovering that Mull of Kintyre was the UK's biggest selling single of the 1970's.

Sounds like a very eclectic group of milestones.

I'm embarrassed to be an Australian cricket fan - WTF were they thinking.

Total brain fade or thinking they are above the law. Total cluster.

Dammit we now know the conversation now when we meet future DIL parents from the UK next Tuesday.

 

[JohnK]

I pay for Foxtel but I don't bother watching the cricket these days

I've no time to watch but follow cricket on cricinfo.

 

[Pushka]

I really hate the upward inflection that Aussies put at the end of their sentences. For some reason it sounds worse in women.

Just saw the latest Instagram qantas tour oh the new PER lounge. The upward inflections were cringing.

In our organisation, those candidates for interviews who do it a lot are advised to try to correct this and reserve the upward inflection for asking a question.

That annoys me too. Isn’t it a function of education? I tend to only hear it on TV and not generally in the people I deal with at work or socially.

I've no time to watch but follow cricket on cricinfo.

I love that site. It has MrP’s age down to the minute, maybe even the second. He tries to tell me he is a year younger than me as we missed one of his birthdays while flying from the US. I just say ‘cricinfo’ and he shuts up.

 

[Pushka]

So Warner, keeper of the ball, swaps fielding places with Bancroft, and then Bancroft does his Thang. There is a message from Lehman ???? Bancroft puts the ‘evidence’ in his daks. Sounds like quite a few are in on it.

 

[sjk]

Considering the optics from the perspective of my 13-year-old cricket-playing son, I'd very much like to see Smith stood down as captain. Not that there are a whole lot of obvious replacements at the moment. Are we going to see Shaun Marsh at the helm?

 

[TheRealTMA]

I am saddened and blown away by the Australian Cricket Team activities in South Africa. Steven Smith must be sacked. He thinks it’s up to him. Seriously? Maybe sack any of the Leadership Team involved. They asked the newest player to do the deed. Cheating. And plain stupid. It’s worse than the underarm bowling incident. At least that was legal at the time and out in the open.

Do you think the SAs are putting something in the water over there? Seems to be causing severe brain fades for many of our cricketers, including the "leadership team".

Macca on AAO (ABC local radio) this morning did a good job at ridicule and took the p**s very well over "He put it down his trousers!??" and even suggested the second major mistake they made was actually giving a press conference. He suggested that they should have said "No, sorry not available. Have to wash my socks, visit my Mom..."

 

[Pushka]

Considering the optics from the perspective of my 13-year-old cricket-playing son, I'd very much like to see Smith stood down as captain. Not that there are a whole lot of obvious replacements at the moment. Are we going to see Shaun Marsh at the helm?

Tim Paine? Theoretically it will be Warner but as keeper of the ball he would have known about it. That may not come out but the team itself will know. The ICC will suspend him even if CA doesn’t. But can’t see they have a choice.

Do you think the SAs are putting something in the water over there? Seems to be causing severe brain fades for many of our cricketers, including the "leadership team".

Macca on AAO (ABC local radio) this morning did a good job at ridicule and took the p**s very well over "He put it down his trousers!??" and even suggested the second major mistake they made was actually giving a press conference. He suggested that they should have said "No, sorry not available. Have to wash my socks, visit my Mom..."

Maybe it’s fake water as they have a bad drought right now in Cape Town.
Like I said. Cluster.

AFL will be hating this. It’s knocked footy off the front page.

 

[RB]

I am a little confused re the coverage of this. I am not defending anyone, but the cricketers are being hung out to dry. Meanwhile in Rugby League the coaches are lauded by many for the ways they can stretch or break rules and deceive the refs. I am sure the AFL is no different. The professional era of sport has ushered in some terrible behaviour.
Maybe I am naive but golf seems to have succeeded in maintaining the culture of honesty despite the huge prizemoney at the pointy end of the sport

 

[Cossie]

Considering the optics from the perspective of my 13-year-old cricket-playing son, I'd very much like to see Smith stood down as captain. Not that there are a whole lot of obvious replacements at the moment. Are we going to see Shaun Marsh at the helm?

Hope not, him and his brother are perennial under achievers, very rarely performing it it's really needed, add Khwaja to that list. The current setup, I think only the bowlers can hold their heads up and probably Paine.

There used to be a joke that it's harder to get dropped from the Australian team, than it was getting into it, think that has come back again.

 

[Pushka]

I am a little confused re the coverage of this. I am not defending anyone, but the cricketers are being hung out to dry. Meanwhile in Rugby League the coaches are lauded by many for the ways they can stretch or break rules and deceive the refs. I am sure the AFL is no different. The professional era of sport has ushered in some terrible behaviour.
Maybe I am naive but golf seems to have succeeded in maintaining the culture of honesty despite the huge prizemoney at the pointy end of the sport

I think maybe Rugby League isn’t the benchmark to judge other codes of sport . Agree, maybe I’m naive too, Golf has remained very purist in that regard.

 

[RB]

I think maybe Rugby League isn’t the benchmark to judge other codes of sport . Agree, maybe I’m naive too, Golf has remained very purist in that regard.

James Hird

 

[RooFlyer]

Sledging and now ball tampering.

No need for Smith to step down. From memory Faf du Plessis did similar a few years ago.

Embarassing and disappointing.

Hmmm.., Warner goes verbally mental after someone abuses his wife - and that's a hanging offence. But pre-meditated cheating, not so much?

What a wonderfully flexible moral compass!

 

[Pushka]

James Hird

He’s AFL? or are you saying that AFL has its fools too? I agree there but they are a bit fledgling and the sport calls them out.

Hmmm.., Warner goes verbally mental after someone abuses his wife - and that's a hanging offence. But pre-meditated cheating, not so much?

What a wonderfully flexible moral compass!

Must admit I’m finding it difficult getting a fix too. I’d thought you’d be all over this one JohnK and was going to say well done on your call of the team a few days ago. But now you’ve kind of blown it off. Ein confusen?

 

[RB]

He’s AFL? or are you saying that AFL has its fools too? I agree there but they are a bit fledgling and the sport calls them out.

I have seen enough AFL to know that the envelope well and truly gets pushed there too. I am sure the game plans are not based on promoting the code, they are there to win at all costs and that has become the measure of success in the professional age-flooding, tanking for picks, peptides etc are sad developments.
It was claimed an "immortal " of League forced a review of the existing blood bin laws when he had his trainers nicking his players so they could go to the blood bin.
Getting too on topic now but the professional era has forced rule changes in games & that is lamentable