Australia Cheats

[grog]

A very sad day for Oz today. Im the most true blue bloke youll ever meet, really pissed off with our cricket team cheating. Amazing they thought they could get away with it, down right crap they did it. Thats just not how Australia works, we are battlers, not fnn cheats. Makes me feel sick.

[Snapey]

Nothing less than a 12 month holiday away from the game for all involved and ACB contracts torn up.

[Kiwifruit]

Good on ya Grog.
Have taught my kids to play hard, play fair, be a gracious victor and if bettered to congratulate a deserving winner.
Shame someone forgot to tell that to the Aussie cricketers. 

[KiwiCol]

Yeah, pretty stupid thing to do, but, it seems to happen a lot in cricket.

[lawrie]

I concur with all of the above, however, with the quality of cameras nowadays, its just about impossible to get away with stuff like that, I surprised they even tried , they are able to pick out a zit on a flys arse  with the gear they have now.

[Notty]

How stupid can they be with 200 cameras zooming in on every zit ...

[gsxbarmy]

Sad day and not sure why they even needed to think about it, disgraceful as well that the captain endorsed it.

[Sweaty]

Yeah, totally agree with all comments above.
Also think a lot of it goes on Col, but hopefully the other teams can learn from the stupid Aussie's. "Don't use the brightest coloured Yellow tape possible"

Very sad day for Australian Sport & all the kids who look up to these cheating bastards as role models.  👎

[shanered6]

With all the doping and cheating going on in sport today it does not suprise me at all  its all just got to commercialised and to much money and the days of fair play are long gone ... very 

[Mister Fishfinger]

With all the doping and cheating going on in sport today it does not suprise me at all  its all just got to commercialise and to much money and the days of fair play are gone ... very 

Totally agree. Look at all the top sports nowadays and it doesn't look like anybody is enjoying it. Same goes for the crowd half the time. There's just too much at stake.

[Kiwifruit]

Àussie cricket captain Steve Smith gets one match ban.

His team mates will no doubt be there to support him as he recovers from the injuries sustained after the ICC gave him a good flogging with a wet bus ticket.

[Sweaty]

What a joke 😡

[Boa]

The fact that it was orchestrated, and not a maverick cheat, is beyond belief !

It's a sad day for cricket and a destructive day for Aussie cricket. Credibility is a very hard thing to recover, especially when proven beyond reasonable doubt.

Punishment? Ban them for life and wipe all individual records. They deserve to be banished for this. Lenient punishment encourages further discretions.

It isn't as if Australia are lacking replacements, they breed 'em like rabbits, lol

[seth]

We got caught years ago with using bottle tops to scratch the ball making it do strange stuff if I remember right .
As ready said to much money in sport makes it almost compulsory to try and win at any costs.
A sad world these days .

[Kiwifruit]

Seth, surely if anyone in the Scots cricket team just put the ball in their pocket it would get scratched by bottle tops.