Ain't that the truth.
Steve Smith (Captain) faced the media yesterday and broke down a number of times . . seemed genuine to me.
He had no idea of the wide ranging ramifications of all this. It's pretty shameful.
Ok, I realise we're drifting off topic here and I'll admit that I'm not a big cricket fan but this thing is being blown out of all proportions and I do feel a bit sorry for the Aussies. OK, according to the rules the guys cheated. They were caught, thrown off the team and for me that's good enough.
It's not as if it's a particularly clever form of cheating, it's laughingly basic. If the umpire or batsman thinks the ball is bending unnaturally in flight then just grabbing hold of it is going to show why and the ball gets changed. If it happens twice, someone gets a hard word. TBH it seems a daft way of cheating to me, but there ya go.
Now compare this with other sports where it's pretty clear that athletes are taking banned drugs to enhance performance which, unless actually caught with the stuff in their bloodstream, will go entirely undetected. I'm a keen cyclist and it's been rampant for years, even in when I started in the 60s it was around and anecdotal comments from UK amateurs infer that it's even down to club level these days. Now that's
proper cheating.....
Brian
