Smith's Crew in SA

[ElwoodBlues1]

Evidence of collusion?    Wangling things to get Rabada's ban overturned.  Not cheating but clearly part of "do anything to win" mentality.

Apparently using sugar-laced saliva for "minor ball polishing" is different to scuffing the ball with sandpaper.

I'll call it what it was Faf....it was blatant cheating.

Tha Rabada case was disgraceful, contact with opposing players should be an automatic out of the next game, how they argued that on some new camera angle basis is beyond me.....

The mints/sugar based lollies etc has been around for a long while, its cheating for sure but all the countries do it......Saffies, English, Pakis....the umps tend to let it go unless in Faf's case he was sticking his fingers down his throat and making it so obvious. The other scam was the sunscreen, lipbarm plastered on the face and used to shine the ball.....cheating again but hard to police and hard to ban....

The Sandpaper was equivalent to taking an angle grinder out there for the bowling team to use.....crickets a funny game in that you can cheat if its not too obvious but as soon as it becomes obvious you are the worst in the world...our blokes made the mistake of not using normal ball tampering methods and went for something a bit too exotic..
The vision of Bancroft in the dressing room throwing copious amounts of sugar in his pocket I think from a previous test also made him a good camera target.....