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Just get over of it now, man that happened 8 years ago.
What happened Happened, leave this shit now.
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Shameful what happened, but Smith, Warner and Bancroft owning it at their peak was bold. CA knew the truth and still sacrificed a year of their careers. Shameful. CA's decision to hand them a year-long ban was disgraceful. CA deserves just as much criticism.
Nothing new apart from SA also cheated.
'BREAKING' 🚨🚨🚨
Usman Khawaja in his autobiography 'SABR' has revealed one hidden secret that all the players, staff and management knew about 'Sandpaper gate' incident in 2018 and the act was carried during the Port Elizabeth Test but they weren't caught. Cameron Bancroft was caught with sandpaper under his trousers on cameras in the Cape Town Test and everything changed after that.
Bancroft, Smith and Warner were the only ones held accountable and got their punishments which was very harsh by the CA as the ICC had only given them a one match ban but questions remain why did the 'fab 4' trio bowling trio of Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazlewood lie they didn't have involvement and got away scot free?? It is so clear that they had a huge say in ball tampering. I unfortunately wasn't on social media at the time of this incident in 2018 but I always knew back of my mind this act was carried out by the team to ' win at all costs' as per standing instructions by the ex CA CEO James Sutherland. They've should've owned everything up and taken the fall like the other 3 players did.
Even South African players were involved in ball tampering in the 2018 series but the South African Broadcasters never put the live footage out. They destroyed all that evidence. If the South African players have any conscience and guilt left in them they should openly come out and accept their wrong doing now that everything is out in the open. What's there to hide????
The biggest losers out of all this was Smith, Bancroft and Warner and the ones who are solely responsible for letting this happen in the first place was the corrupt CA led by the dirt of a human being in the ex CEO James Sutherland. Pay issues of players led to all of this in the first place and he created a toxic environment in the first place with the 'win at all costs attitude'. I pity their children for having such a miserable father.
Ball tampering act has been carried out by all teams in the game. Pakistanis were notorious for ball tampering in the 80s and the 90s which is how Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis became legends and knew the art of reverse swing with the help of ball tampering. Right through the late 90s, 200s, 2010s this has been carried out. So it is not something knew. Ball tampering to aid reverse swing has been going on since ages. Unfortunately for Australia cameras caught Bancroft in the act.
The biggest positive to come out of all this is that after the Cape Town incident is that 'reverse swing' has become almost non-existent entity now.
Now coming to the individual who has come up with this revelation, Usman Khawaja needs to sell his book and make the dollar so whether he has done this with good intentions or not this revelation will definitely not sit well with the Australian Public and his teammates. Cause he too was part of this mess and was culpable. He's a devout Muslim and believes in his faith and honesty so he should have revealed everything at the time but didn't do so as his international career would be in jeopardy so I would say he is a big fool of the highest order and not a trustworthy individual. He chose to remain silent rather than reveal everything at the time.
Australia gave him an identity to showcase his talent and he is now backstabbing his own mates and countrymen with this disclosure after eight long years which is very sad to see. He bring politics, religious beliefs and tries to poison the minds of his fellow Muslims and tries to brainwash other people with his 'blind rhetoric' of spreading diversity.
Hey @grok are these boxes really that worth it ?
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