Feco
Vital Squad Member
ThePromisedLand - 28/3/2018 15:29
Drastic?
Warner & Smith should’ve been banned sine die - absolutely no excuse whatsoever.
Bancroft I have some sympathy for - he was clearly working to the instructions of his skipper & vice captain.
No place for this in the game. Any suggestion that this has been happening for years is no excuse.
No Smith or Warner in the IPL or in England this year - they will not be missed!
Why the sympathy for Bancroft but not the others? He's 25 year old, surely mature enough to know what he was doing. They were (and probably others) all in it together, they should all have had the same punishment.
Of course if any of them had been South African, they would probably have been promoted to Captian, just like DuPlessis. The action by CA has been total disproportionate to the events.
I do agree there is no excuse for cheating, but whilst ever sport exists, participants will challange the rules to try and win. I know I did, and whilst playing cricket too.
Ball tampering will happen again in Test Cricket, and probably in the next round of matches.
Just like footballers over the weekend will be rolling around as if shot over the slightest touch just to con the match officials.
Cheating, gamesmanship whatever you want to call it happens, its the nature of the beast, particularly in professional sport.