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• Australia ball-tampering: Faf du Plessis says Steve Smith must be going through tough time

  25-03-2018 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  South Africa captain Faf du Plessis says Australia committed a more serious offence in the third Test than he did two years ago when he was caught sucking on mints before using his saliva to shine the ball.
  
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• Steve Smith must go after scandal that has torched Australia’s reputation | Jason Gillespie

  25-03-2018 18:45
  This was pre-planned cheating in South Africa and we need to know who was involved if Australian cricket is to restore trustSteve Smith’s time as Australia’s captain is surely up. It is impossible to envisage a scenario where he stays in the job. This is a train wreck.When Smith fronted the media on Saturday to explain his role in the ball-tampering scandal, one that has taken an already distasteful encounter with South Africa to new depths, he did not appear to grasp the severity of
  
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• Steve Smith must go after scandal that has torched Australia’s reputation

  25-03-2018 18:45
  This was pre-planned cheating and we need to know who exactly was involved if Australian cricket is to restore trustSteve Smith’s time as Australian captain is surely up. It is impossible to envisage a scenario where he stays in the job. This is a train wreck. Related: South Africa thrash Australia to pile on pain for tourists after scandal They were just stood in the middle of a cricket match blatantly lying to the officials. That is such a bad look Related: Australia exposed as cheats &n
  
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• South Africa thrash Australia to pile on pain for tourists after scandal

  25-03-2018 18:14
  • South Africa 311 & 373; Australia 255 & 107 – SA win by 322 runs
  • Morne Morkel leads charge to leave Australia in disarrayMorne Morkel took five wickets as Australia collapsed in the wake of the ball-tampering controversy and South Africa cruised to a 322‑run victory on day four of the third Test at Cape Town.On a day dominated by the fallout from the revelations of Australian ball-tampering – for which their captain, Steve Smith, has been given a one-match
  
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• Australia ball-tampering: Graeme Swann critical of 'friendless' Australia

  25-03-2018 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Former England spinner Graeme Swann says "friendless" Australia "deserve to get the book thrown at them" for ball-tampering.
  
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• ‘Australia start fights and moan when someone comes back’ says Stuart Broad

  25-03-2018 17:27
  • Broad says he can’t understand Darren Lehmann slating crowd
  • ‘The banter we hear in Australia is worse than in South Africa’Stuart Broad did not fall back on the Wenger defence in Auckland and no one expected that he would. Yes, he had seen the press conference of Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft in Cape Town and he was clearly well versed in the minutiae of the saga. But he displayed a determination to be statesmanlike; there were no cheap jibes. Yet somehow when
  
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• 'I was just trying to smell it': Five memorable ball-tampering moments

  25-03-2018 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  From England captain Michael Atherton in 1994 to South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis in 2016 - ball-tampering scandals have a long tradition in cricket.
  
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• 'This is a shocking disappointment' - says Australian PM about ball-tampering incident - video

  25-03-2018 15:05
  Australian cricketers have admitted ball-tampering. The batsman Cameron Bancroft said that he attempted to tamper with the ball and his captain, Steve Smith, added that the team's senior players planned it. The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said, he was 'shocked' and 'disappointed' with the news. He said he had expressed his concerns to the Cricket Australia chairman, David Peever.'I have expressed to him very clearly and unequivocally my disappointment and my concern about the ev
  
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• 'I am not proud of what's happened': Steve Smith on ball-tampering row – video

  25-03-2018 15:03
  Australia captain Steve Smith admitted bringing the game into disrepute after his side were caught tampering with the ball. He said the ‘leadership group’ of the team hatched the plan. ‘I’m not proud of what’s happened [and] it’s not within the spirit of the game. My integrity, the team’s integrity, the leadership group’s integrity has come into question and rightfully so. It’s certainly not on and it won’t happen again, I can promise y
  
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• Australia captain Steve Smith gets one-match ban for role in ball tampering row

  25-03-2018 14:46
  Smith and David Warner stand down as captain and vice captainTim Paine takes over as Gilchrist calls Australia a ‘laughing stock’Steve Smith has been has been handed a one-match ban, fined 100% of his match fee by the ICC and has stood down as Australia captain for the remainder of the third Test against South Africa after admitting his team deliberately tampered with the ball. The vice captain David Warner has also stood down while Cameron Bancroft has been fined 75% of his match fe
  
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• Australia exposed as cheats – and stupid ones – but Smith will survive | Vic Marks

  25-03-2018 14:35
  The actions of this hard-to-like Australia side cannot be condoned but sportsmen have long sought an illegal advantageOnce the prime minister of Australia had addressed the nation on the subject it was inevitable that Steve Smith’s tenure of the Australian captaincy would come to an abrupt end. Australians are up in arms, and, somewhat confusingly, astonished that their cricketers are capable of cheating. Even more unprecedentedly, their cricketers are admitting it.“How can our team
  
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• Australia exposed as cheats – and stupid ones – but Smith will survive

  25-03-2018 14:35
  The actions of this hard-to-like Australia side cannot be condoned but sportsmen have long sought an illegal advantageOnce the prime minister of Australia had addressed the nation on the subject it was inevitable that Steve Smith’s tenure of the Australian captaincy would come to an abrupt end. Australians are up in arms, and, somewhat confusingly, astonished that their cricketers are capable of cheating. Even more unprecedentedly, their cricketers are admitting it.“How can our team
  
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• Australia ball-tampering: Emotional Jim Maxwell struggles to commentate after controversy

  25-03-2018 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  An emotional Jim Maxwell struggles to commentate, saying he "does not remember ever being as disappointed", after Australia admitted ball-tampering against South Africa.
  
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• Australia's Smith & Warner step down from roles for rest of Test

  25-03-2018 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner step down from their roles for the rest of the third Test against South Africa after a ball tampering incident.
  
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• Joe Root dismissal leaves England staring at defeat against New Zealand

  25-03-2018 12:29
  • New Zealand 427-8 wickets; England 58 all out and 132-3
  • Root out for 51 at close of day fourTwo Test captains fell within the space of five minutes in Cape Town and Auckland. It must have been an agonising experience for the demoted Steve Smith to ask Tim Paine where he should field against South Africa when play resumed there. It was almost as painful for Joe Root in the last over of the day at Eden Park.Root had battled to 51 in England’s pursuit of the unlikeliest of draws
  
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• 'Beyond belief' - Australian prime minister shocked by cricket team's 'cheating'

  25-03-2018 12:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian prime minister, says it is "beyond belief" that the national cricket team was involved in "cheating" during the third Test match against South Africa
  
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• Australia ball-tampering: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull shocked by 'cheating'

  25-03-2018 12:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian prime minister, says it is "beyond belief" that the national cricket team was involved in "cheating" during the third Test match against South Africa
  
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• England in trouble after Root falls on last ball of day four

  25-03-2018 11:56 via bbc.co.uk
  England captain Joe Root is dismissed on the final ball of day four as New Zealand take a big step towards victory in the first Test.
  
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• Danni Wyatt and England send records tumbling in T20 victory over India

  25-03-2018 11:38
  • India 198-4; England 199-3 – England win by seven wickets
  • Wyatt hits 124 as Heather Knight’s side complete record run chaseDanni Wyatt struck England’s highest ever Twenty20 individual score – and their fastest hundred – as England completed a record run-chase of 199 to beat India in the Tri Series in Mumbai.The opener’s stunning 124 from 64 balls included 15 fours and five sixes and enabled England to get over the line with eight balls to spare
  
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• Smith must go, says Australian government body

  25-03-2018 10:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Pressure increases on Australia captain Steve Smith after a government agency calls for his removal in the wake of the ball-tampering row.
  
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• New Zealand v England: first Test, day four – as it happened

  25-03-2018 10:43
  New Zealand have 98 overs and need seven England wickets to take a series lead; the tourists fought back well in the final session, but Trent Boult’s dismissal of Joe Root with the day’s last delivery tipped the balance firmly against them 10.35am BST Read the report from day four: Related: Joe Root wicket hampers England’s bid to save first Test against New ZealandRelated: Danni Wyatt and England send records tumbling in T20 victory over India9.43am BST Otherwise, we’re
  
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• Australia captain Steve Smith stands down for rest of Test after cheating row

  25-03-2018 10:38
  David Warner also stands down as vice captain for remainder of TestTim Paine takes over as Gilchrist calls Australia a ‘laughing stock’Steve Smith has stood down as Australia captain for the remainder of the third Test against South Africa after admitting his team deliberately tampered with the ball, Cricket Australia has announced. The vice captain David Warner has also stood down.
  Both Smith and Warner will continue to play in the rest of the third Test, but wicketkeeper Tim Paine
  
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• Wyatt's 52-ball century leads England to record T20 win

  25-03-2018 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Danni Wyatt's superb 52-ball century leads England to the highest successful run chase in a women's Twenty20 international and victory over India.
  
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• Steve Smith faces ball-tampering inquiry as Cricket Australia resists calls for immediate sacking

  25-03-2018 07:48
  Australian Sports Commission says Smith should go now, while PM expresses ‘shock and disappointment’ after captain admits plan to cheat in South AfricaCricket Australia has resisted widespread calls for the immediate sacking of Steve Smith after the Australian captain admitted overseeing ball-tampering during the third Test in South Africa. Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian prime minister, added his voice to the criticism after Smith admitted that he and batsman Cameron Bancroft consp
  
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• An unashamed disgrace: ball tampering cheats Australian cricket fans | Kate O'Halloran

  25-03-2018 04:47
  Steve Smith’s team has not only lost its way, it has also lost the public’s respect and trustIt could be the darkest day in Australian cricket history. The nation’s men’s team has been caught red-handed, ball-tampering in the third Test of the tour in South Africa. Worst of all, Steve Smith admitted in his press conference afterwards that he had conspired with the most junior member of the team, Cameron Bancroft, to do so, as a way to “get an advantage” agains
  
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• Ball-tampering: Australia launch investigation, Steve Smith remains captain for now

  25-03-2018 04:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Cricket Australia begins an investigation into the ball-tampering scandal, while Steve Smith remains as captain for now.
  
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• New Zealand v England: first Test, day four– live!

  25-03-2018 03:38
  NZ resume with 175-run lead and six first-innings wickets in handVic Marks: England may need to rely on the rainContact Tanya via email or on Twitter @tjaldred 2.38am BST 14th over: New Zealand 275-5 (Nicholls 67, de Grandhomme 10) Overton for Broad, and a pretty good first over. He beats Nicholls three times in a row before Nicholls pulls a shorter one for a couple and then drives nicely only to be stopped well by a diving Stokes.TMS report that Simon Katich says that Cricket Australia should s
  
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• Australia ball-tampering prompts angry calls for 'cheat' Steve Smith to resign

  25-03-2018 01:32
  Captain admits he and Bancroft conspired against South Africa
  Emergency meeting due to be held, but Smith says he will not resign Politicians, sportspeople and former cricketers have called on the Australian cricket captain, Steve Smith, to resign after he and batsman Cameron Bancroft admitted to ball-tampering against South Africa on Saturday.Smith admitted that he and Bancroft conspired to “get an advantage” in Cape Town by applying tape to the ball during the third day of the thir
  
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