Smith's Crew in SA

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Wonder how Faf Du Plessis retained his job given he's been sanctioned TWICE for ball tampering. Won't be hearing much from them. Been a long list of players sanctioned for ball tampering. Imran Khan with the bottle top, Tendulkar suspended for a Test, Philander in 2014, Waqar, Atherton, Shahid Afridi. Not to mention England cheating using mints on the ball during the entire 2005 Ashes series. Thescothick told the whole story in his book. Now us. Been going on since day dot, only a few get caught. Time to put a stop to it.

If your going to cheat use the lolly, it's effect is alot faster, take forever to scuff up the rough side....haha.

Actually Du Plessis has been out and about in the press, stating his actions were not as serious as the Australian's. He said he was just superficially polishing the ball with a lolly which he claims isn't altering the condition of the ball! :o

Let's not forget, back prior to the 60s and 70s you could scrub the ball on the pitch to roughen it up for your spinner. Why not allow that, and all this stuff disappears! The MCC only banned it because the Asia countries kept handing England and Australia a shellacking on the sub-continent.

Finally on this whole issue, it often seems to be batsmen going on about this ball tampering issue, I was a opening bowler for almost 15 years and other than the benefits of chucking the pill in the deep freezer overnight before a game I found very little real benefit from any of those supposed actions to improve it's condition for swing, seam or spin. It was all in the head of usually, some batsmen / captain. All this lolly sh1te is for people who do not know how to polish a pill without making it soggy!

The most beneficial thing was clearly and cleanly bowling the ball with some decent seam control! I watch Starc closely and half the time his release is so bad the ball might as well not have a seam!

If the batsmen / captain wanted to maximize his influence, he needed to spend more time learning how to set decent fields and less time on how to alter the pill!