Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket

[Virgil]

Wonder who gets the fun task of trawling through hundreds of hours of cricket from past Australian tears looking for signs of this happening previously.
Don’t for a minute believe this plan just came out of nowhere and hadn’t been tried before.

[Stockcar86]

[Magpie_in_aus]

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. Hand back the ashes...

[Virgil]

Just me or did he look guilty and awkward as fuck when he did that?

[KiwiMurph]

Cricket Australia have said their Head of Integrity is being sent over to South Africa to investigate.

Lots of talk of process.

[KiwiPie]

Smith should have immediately resigned - you can't take full responsibility and promise never to do it again and hope that deals with it, the board should fire him and Lehmann as well if they won't resign.

[MN5]

Fuck sake Smith. You're far and away the best batsman of this generation. Why sink to this level?

[NTA]

@mn5 because he bats with far and away the most overrated batsmen of his generation.

[MN5]

@nta said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:

@mn5 because he bats with far and away the most overrated batsmen of his generation.

I think he'll rate with the very best Oz batsmen when he retires which is some effort all things considered.

[Paekakboyz]

Note how Smith has said he is sorry for 'trying to bring the game into disrepute' ummm pretty sure you actually did bro.

[No Quarter]

@mn5 said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:

Fuck sake Smith. You're far and away the best batsman of this generation. Why sink to this level?

I know, he's such a talent but now this is all he will be remembered for (and rightly so). But fucking hell, what was he thinking?

[canefan]

@nta said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:

@mn5 because he bats with far and away the most overrated batsmen of his generation.

How is it being taken in oz mate? I don't think Aussies particularly like obvious proven cheaters normally do they?

[TeWaio]

This is absolutely shocking. I am so pissed off. How did they think they could get away with it? Imagine how much of a licence this is for people to cheat at lower levels of the game where there aren't a million fucking cameras everywhere.

[KiwiMurph]

@canefan said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:

@nta said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:

@mn5 because he bats with far and away the most overrated batsmen of his generation.

How is it being taken in oz mate? I don't think Aussies particularly like obvious proven cheaters normally do they?

The term unaustralian is being thrown around an awful lot.

Pretty much everyone is calling for heads to roll.

They are saying this is the worst controversy since the Underarm and worse than that.

[mikedogz]

[NTA]

@canefan pretty much what Murph said - fucking outraged.

[taniwharugby]

bit of a clusterfuck all round, this tour has made alot of headlines.

[Sneakdefreak]

So did Bancroft confess when confronted by the umpires on the field and that's why Steve Smith had to admit it in the press conference?

I'm not surprised by the cheating, it's the fact they have so easily given up trying to spin their way out of it. That's not the Australia I know....

[Paekakboyz]

Ha ha doully's got yellow tape on in the tea break show 😁

[No Quarter]

Doull has a point, Aus are far from the only team that has done this. The English "shining" the ball on the zips on their pants, players using mints to shine the ball etc.

This seems more blatent and they've been caught red handed, but it's a part of the game that has been there since the start.

If they wany to crack down on it then they need to start consistently handing out serious punishments for all forms of tampering.