Yep, Smith and Warner got 12 months, Bancroft supposedly copped 9 months, but after dominating shield cricket for the last two summers it would appear that he's been banned for life.
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I'd have him in my list ahead of Wyllie, with all due respect, even though one is a bowler and one is a batsmen.
A 10WM is pretty damn impressive for as young bowler. All in all I'd rate it much higher than a 100 from a young batsmen.
So how much worse was it than a Pommie captain using dirt to sand the ball, got a couple of weeks from memory, it was also Smudge who was Captain at the time not Warner. So more on him than Warner. Or perhaps the whole Pommie side dribbling sticky mint sauce down one side of the ball for an entire series? Or what about the bloke who got caught using a bottle cap to scrape one side of the ball? Then there's always the match fixers within the game, got me a feeling there was a wealthy Jaapie captain involved in making a bit of extra on the side among others which also included a couple of super high profile Ozzies that copped not much more than a whitewash after they got found out.
Done the crime n done the time, plenty have done as bad if not worse n copped insignificant penalties by comparison. There's bugger all puritans in sport, business or life. Pretty much everyone pushes the boundaries n fudges *smile* when they think they can get away with it, get caught n cop your whack then move on.
So Bancroft was stupid enough to be led by the nose because he was some sort of innocent ten year old. Stupid bloke had a fairly large input into his own suspension n obviously by his own actions didn't have much value for the so called historical integrity of the sport. Maybe we'll never know if he had the capacity to step up to the pressure at international level and become a regular player. We do know however that both Smudge and Warner had that level of talent even if they were *smile* wits during that Sth African tour, and again after.
Sadly happens on a regular basis that some players spend their entire careers on the fringes of the test squad simply because the incumbents do enough to hold onto their spot in the senior side. Been happening for generations, especially when the test side is reasonably successful that the hopefuls can't get into the team no matter how well they perform at the lower level.
Could say exactly the same thing about footy sides.
I'd say using sandpaper is more egregious. Plus there's no doubt players from other sides got off far too lightly.
Fergus O'Neil debuted for the Renegades a few days ago .. did well
| BOWLERS | O | MO | RUNS | WKTS | ECO |
| Fergus O'Neill | 4.0 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 6.3 |
True, one of the incumbents has left the building and the other one probably won't be that far behind so Oz cricket will be needing to find two openers in a relatively short period of time.
Just had a quick google of Bancroft's numbers at test level and apart from one knock of 82 in 18 innings there's not a lot else to write home about. Perhaps there's more than one reason H.O. hasn't bothered to go back to Bancroft despite his numbers at Shield level.
Gun player at VFL level, list clogger at AFL level.
Yep, robbing a bank is way nastier than robbing a milk bar, just ask the poor bastard behind the counter who gets a machete waved under his nose while his missus n kids are out back of the shop how nasty them bank robbers are.
Yep. H.O. always spends way more time diminishing the offence and protecting the image of the game while attacking the offenders with wet lettuce leaves.
Reckon Oz cricket at least got the punishment fairly right, publicly shamed the perpetrators, suspended them for a lengthy period, then allowed them the opportunity to rebuild their careers after the punishment instead of destroying them completely.
Is that still appropriate these days? Haven't seen to many Chinese cricketers over the years.
Gotta keep the batter all light n fluffy, heavy n gluggy batter just ruins a piece of flake.
Warner hopes to helicopter in for Thunder's BBL clash against Sixers
"It's a fine line. I might be tight but I'm trying my best to make it work for that day"
That's the way Dave, keep it low key. Flog.
Speaking of massive flogs:
www.espncricinfo.com
Clarke: Smith would be No. 1 opener in the world in 12 months
However, he believes Pat Cummins' comments about not moving too many players is significant
