Smith's Crew in SA

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Warner is the most hated cricketer in the world according to HD Ackerman who I watched on a news show last night which also featured Gideon Haigh and Lisa Forrest of swimming fame...

Well Ackerman is a Saffie cricketer, did he have to say about du Plessis and Rabada?

CA let it all go while the team was successful but the Saffies give as good as they get and are happy to get in the gutter  and slug it out...it got out of control, probably after Rabada got off Warner convinced Smith anything goes now and we had sandpaper/tape gate occur...

I think you underestimate the Saffies.

I've two friends both who have played rugby for SA, they live and breath sledging stuff far more than any Aussie I've ever talked to! When their sons played footy with my boy I've had to ask them, and their wives, for some restraint at junior matches. I put it down to growing up in the SA, a fairly harsh environment living in compounds behind razor ribbon, where a moments hesitation can cost your life!

I think it's quite wrong to claim they would only be retaliating to this stuff, or by inference that they have a better moral compass.