South Africa vanquish Australia to win Newlands Test

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has reacted, saying that he is disappointed and shocked by the cheating cricketers. The latter is also working with integrity chief Iain Roy on the ball-tampering probe. The game needs to have a hard look at itself.

Australian skipper Steve Smith, who has now make himself step down as an Australian captain during the third Test match in Cape Town.

Both Smith and David Warner, removed as captain and vice-captain, are captaining their respective sides in the Indian Premier League that follows this series. It was a day on which a serving captain, right in the midst of a Test match, addressed a press conference and admitted that he had cheated. “They have a far more crucial role to play here than the ICC (International Cricket Council)”.

Not for now, at least under close scrutiny. It later transpired that the object was yellow tape.

“We are in discussions with Cricket Australia as this issue unfolds”. Opinions were divided on what the ramifications should be. “Whatever will be the ICC’s ruling, we will implement that in the IPL“, he said.

Born in Sydney in 1989, Smith made his first-class debut for New South Wales in 2008, graduating to the Test team as frontline spinner and number eight batsman two years later.

“What they (Australian players) did wasn’t bright”.

Zubin Bharucha, Head of Cricket, said, ‘The incident in Cape Town has certainly disturbed the cricket world.

It proved a baptism of fire for Paine, the 33-year-old Tasmanian wicketkeeper, as Australia’s day of shame ended in a crushing 322-run defeat by South Africa on the fourth day of the third Test at Newlands.

“Can the sports media do us all a favour??”

“We have so much work to do to get cricket back to where it belongs”. “Then simmer it down.dont want to hear about (it) for the next 3 months”, Bogut posted on Twitter.

Smith’s ambassadorial role with Commonwealth Bank, a strong supporter of cricket in Australia, also appears uncertain. At the time, the underarm bowl wasn’t outlawed, although the rules have been rewritten.

Former England captain Michael Atherton once used dirt in his pocket to rough up the ball.

“That’s I think something that might come up this week”, he said of whether Smith and Lehmann could continue, “but there’s an internal review that’s going to take place in the next few days and until that’s happened no one will be making any comment on anything like that”.

“What we were trying to do today is make them aware that there is a lot of pressure on them”, said South Africa captain Faf du Plessis.

Australia have always asserted they do not use underhand means and never cross the “line” – be it in sledging opposition players on the field or the aggression they show towards them.

Smith has been suspended for one match.

The ASC supported the CA’s decision to appoint Tim Paine as the temporary captain.

“We are still the Australian cricket team and we are expected to put up a better effort than what we did”. Australian cricket now and the integrity of Australian cricket is the laughing stock of world sport.

Australia’s major cricket sponsors, including Qantas Airways, breakfast cereal maker Sanitarium and brewer Lion, said on Monday they were assessing their relationship with the country’s favourite pastime as the fallout from a ball-tampering scandal escalates.

“But there is way too many thing happening away from the game that’s taking the shine”, he said. “And that isn’t occurring”.