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• Steve Smith: Australia captain should be sacked and banned for one year - Kim Hughes

  26-03-2018 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  FORMER Australia skipper Kim Hughes believes Steve Smith should be stripped of the captaincy and banned for up to a year following the ball-tampering incident on Saturday.
  
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• Steve Smith: Australia Test captain told to resign after ball-tampering scandal

  26-03-2018 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  STEVE SMITH has been told his position as Australia Test captain is now untenable after the ball-tampering scandal in the third Test against South Africa.
  
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• Steve Smith and David Warner did NOT make Australia ball-tampering decision - huge claim

  26-03-2018 22:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  ENGLAND cricket legend Ian Botham does not think Steve Smith or David Warner decided to tamper with the ball in Australia’s third Test against South Africa.
  
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• 'This Australian team will be remembered for cheating'

  26-03-2018 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  'This Australian team will be remembered for cheating', says Michael Vaughan.
  
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• Think you’re immune to advertising? It’s the greatest trick Facebook ever pulled | Suzanne Moore

  26-03-2018 18:46
  Now that digital ads are fragmented and microtargeted, we have no idea how minds are being changed – and that’s scaryUnlike the rest of you mere mortals, I am immune to advertising. The billions of dollars, all the creativity poured into making me want certain things, it just doesn’t work on me. It is the same with politics. Nothing anyone says could change my mind; I will not waver from my innate good sense. In any survey I undertake, I am never a “don’t know&rdquo
  
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• ‘Say it ain’t so Steve’: at least this scandal shows cricket still matters | Barney Ronay

  26-03-2018 18:41
  While the ball-tampering furore will die down, it feels as if Steve Smith and his side brought much of this on themselves by neglecting the values Australians attach to their national sport“It ain’t true, is it, Joe?”“Yes, kid, I’m afraid it is.” Related: Steve Smith set to lose Australia captaincy and could face year-long banRelated: Steve Smith must go after scandal that has torched Australia’s reputation | Jason GillespieContinue reading...
  
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• Tape, sun cream & mints - the murky world of ball-tampering, and why it's such a big deal

  26-03-2018 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC Sport takes a look at what ball-tampering is and why it has provoked such an outcry.
  
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• Australian cricket crisis: players await ball-tampering fate – as it happened

  26-03-2018 17:44
  Smith set to lose captaincy and could face a year-long banJason Gillespie: Steve Smith must go after scandal
  Root does not suspect Australia of ball-tampering during Ashes 4.44pm BST Steve Smith is set to lose the Australia captaincy for good, and faces a year-long ban. Read Ali Martin’s news story. Related: Steve Smith set to lose Australia captaincy and could face year-long banRelated: ‘Say it ain’t so Steve’: at least this scandal shows cricket still matters | Barney R
  
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• Steve Smith set to lose Australia captaincy and could face year-long ban

  26-03-2018 17:41
  • Smith loses captaincy of IPL side after ball-tampering scandal
  • Senior bowlers ‘upset by association with leadership group’Steve Smith looks set to be permanently stripped of the Australian captaincy and could face a ban of up to a year from representing the country following his leading role in the ball-tampering scandal that has engulfed the tour of South Africa.Smith, who has already lost the captaincy of Rajasthan Royals for the upcoming Indian Premier League, is exp
  
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• Australian cricket crisis: players await fate in ball-tampering scandal – live

  26-03-2018 16:09
  Jason Gillespie: Steve Smith must go after scandal
  Root does not suspect Australia of ball-tampering during AshesAustralian outrage born of team’s moralising hypocrisy 3.06pm BST John Wylie, the Australian Sports Commission chairman, has reiterated his calls for a “strong and decisive” reaction from Cricket Australia following Steve Smith’s one-match ban from the ICC and has urged them to send the captain back to Australia to face his board. He added that, had a similar s
  
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• Australia cricketer makes bombshell claim about Smith and Bancroft ball-tampering scandal

  26-03-2018 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  AN AUSTRALIAN cricket insider has made a bombshell claim in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal.
  
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• Joe Root says soul searching needed before second New Zealand Test

  26-03-2018 13:30
  England captain reflects on defeat at Eden ParkConcern over Ben Stokes’ continuing back problemsBefore the first Test against New Zealand, Joe Root hinted at changes in the way England were going to go about their business. None were evident at Eden Park. Jimmy Anderson continued to open the bowling with Stuart Broad; the batting was as sturdy as a marshmallow in the first innings and England recorded their tenth defeat in twelve overseas Tests, none of which were won. In their last eight
  
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• It’s just not cricket. But ball-tampering is what you’d expect in today’s world | Simon Jenkins

  26-03-2018 13:09
  If we cannot trust each other in sport, we can hardly put our faith in an election result – or a presidentSo sportsmen cheat. Big deal. Sometimes they get caught. Bad luck. Sometimes they cheat blatantly and are accused of “stupidity”. Australians used to pride themselves on the belligerence of their cricketers, as against the genteel northern hemisphere’s “sportsmanship”. What seems to have hurt most in the latest ball-tampering scandal is not the tampering b
  
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• Joe Root on Australia ball-tampering: 'It's disappointing for Test cricket' – live

  26-03-2018 12:50
  Jason Gillespie: Steve Smith must go after scandal
  Root does not suspect Australia of ball-tampering during AshesAustralian outrage born of team’s moralising hypocrisy 11.50am BST Graeme Smith, the former South Africa captain, has criticised the one-match ban Steve Smith has been given, saying the ICC has missed the chance to “lead the game”.The Australia batsman will miss the final game of the four Test series against South Africa after accepting the ICC charge of serious cond
  
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• Steve Smith RESIGNS as Rajasthan Royals captain as ball-tampering scandal hits the IPL

  26-03-2018 12:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  STEVE SMITH has stood down as captain of the Rajasthan Royals following the ball-tampering scandal, the IPL franchise has announced.
  
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• Joe Root does not suspect Australia of ball-tampering during Ashes series

  26-03-2018 12:09
  England captain says revelations ‘disappointing’ for cricket Australian captain and deputy stood down in scandal Joe Root says he does not suspect Australia of any ball-tampering during the recent Ashes series. The England captain’s remarks, following his side’s defeat against New Zealand in Auckland on Monday, were made after renewed speculation surfaced following the ball-tampering Australia were involved in during their current Test series against South Africa.Root rei
  
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• A brief history of ball-tampering – video

  26-03-2018 11:59
  The fallout continues for the Australia cricket team after their captain Steve Smith admitted overseeing ball-tampering during the third Test in South Africa, although this is far from the first time a player has been caught attempting to alter the condition of the ball in international cricketJason Gillespie: Smith must go after scandal Continue reading...
  
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• Australia ball-tampering row: Simon Hughes explains what happened in Cape Town

  26-03-2018 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Cricket analyst Simon Hughes explains how Australia tampered with the ball during the third Test against South Africa.
  
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• 'Toothless' England have not learned from Ashes defeat - Swann

  26-03-2018 11:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Former England spinner Graeme Swann claims Joe Root's side have not learned the lessons from their Ashes defeat as they go 1-0 down in New Zealand.
  
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• England women reach tri-series final after Australia beat India

  26-03-2018 11:20 via bbc.co.uk
  England are through to the final of the women's Twenty20 tri-series with two games to spare after Australia's defeat of India.
  
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• New Zealand beat England by an innings and 49 runs in first Test – as it happened

  26-03-2018 09:39
  England suffered an emphatic defeat to New Zealand in the first Test in Auckland despite half centuries from Ben Stokes and Chris WoakesRead Vic Marks’s match report from Auckland 8.35am BST To read Vic Marks’s excellent take on the day and the Test click here:Related: New Zealand seal victory over England by an innings and 49 runs in first Test8.28am BST A little stat I’ve cribbed off cricinfo: since Wagner’s debut no bowler has taken more wickets in Tests off short ball
  
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• New Zealand seal victory over England by an innings and 49 runs in first Test

  26-03-2018 09:30
  England 58 and 320; New Zealand 427-8 decNew Zealand win by an innings and 49 runsEngland’s abominable overseas record continues to deteriorate. They have now lost 10 of their last 12 matches away from home. Despite a resolute innings of 66 in four and a half hours from Ben Stokes in his first Test of the winter,New Zealand finally claimed the victory that had seemed such a formality in those dim and distant days when the headline news in Australia was about a threatened strike among Custo
  
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• Australia’s real leadership failures are in politics, not cricket | Van Badham

  26-03-2018 08:15
  Where’s the national outrage over a terrified boy being abandoned to violent despair by our political leaders?Australian cricketer Cameron Bancroft has been caught on video shoving some yellow sticky tape into his underpants. Fortunately – or unfortunately – there was a cricket match in play at the time.The image of him shoving sticky tape into his underpants was broadcast live to the crowd at the Newlands ground in South Africa, and they booed. Related: Australia captain Steve
  
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• How Australia's cricket scandal stung an incredulous nation

  26-03-2018 07:04 via bbc.co.uk
  In a country where sport is often linked to national identity, allegations of cheating have hit hard.
  
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• 'Clown Under': papers roast Steve Smith and Australian team after cricket scandal

  26-03-2018 05:32
  UK papers call Australian team ‘hypocrites’ and ‘cheats’ but reaction is more muted in South AfricaThe Australian cricket team have been roasted on newspaper front pages – particularly in the UK – after the ball-tampering scandal.The UK tabloids pulled no punches, with the Mirror opting for the headline “Clown Under” next to a picture of a glum-looking Steve Smith. MIRROR SPORT: Clown Under #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/VLD2kvVd18Sunday TIM
  
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• Australian outrage over ball tampering born out of team’s moralising hypocrisy | Kate O'Halloran

  26-03-2018 05:04
  Past statements about rival teams are now coming back to bite certain Australian playersIn the Hobart Test series of 2016-17, Faf du Plessis received three demerit points and lost 100% of his match fee for ball tampering. His crime? He applied saliva to the ball (as all cricketers do) while he was chewing on a mint, arguably artificially manipulating its condition. At the time, Du Plessis appealed, arguing that all cricketers would do the same – a point on which most would agree. Still, by
  
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• New Zealand v England: first Test, day five – live!

  26-03-2018 02:58
  Live updates from the final day of the first TestBroad: ‘Australia start fights and moan when someone comes back’Day four report: Root dismissal leaves England facing defeatYou can email Daniel here or tweet him here 1.58am BST 53rd over: England 143-4 (Stokes 67, Bairstow 0) These two batsman are proper, but their averages aren’t great, which is to say if they have a good day, good luck stopping them, but if they don’t they probably won’t hang about. Stokes pulls B
  
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• Australia ball tampering: How Steve Smith and Co may have RUINED Test cricket

  26-03-2018 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  LIKE any sportsman guilty of cheating, there was a narrow question which Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft asked themselves before electing to make their choice.
  
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