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Oh my. Mr Cricket / Mr Tennis has joined us with further nonsense. Sorry bud, I didn't mean to take the shine away from you exceptionally low level of cricket knowledge. :)

Anyhow, Faf found guilty of ball tampering for a second time. No suspension. There we have it as I said, nothing will come of this. Probably should have been a third time after being warned in Perth.

I wonder if Adelaide will roll out another swingers deck. Lets hope not. I'm going to day 3 and it would be nice to see some play. :)

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Well you expected nothing to come of the Faf case. Quote 'I bet nothing comes of this'. He was not suspended only because of a technicality which for some reason saw his 2013 conviction dropped or not counted or happened outside of a 2 year period or whatever - as far as his hearing went he was a first time offender. :confused:

He lost his match fee, has penalty points, further transgression will result in suspension and the good name of SA cricket has been besmirched as they will surely be accused of cheating no matter how trivial it seems.

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Maybe the Channel 9 reporter should be charged and fined too?

I hope du Plessis puts it behind him and makes lots of runs in the third test. That would be sweet.

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Australia suffer an abysmal defeat so hey let's detract attention away from the most appalling display of cricketing prowess by accusing the S.A captain of cheating.
A look back at the Aussie bowlers/team and most of them are sucking mints or chewing gum. Go back further and weren't England accused of using Murray Mints to win the 2005 Ashes? Mints, gum, sweat & sunscreen all used for a bit of extra shine.
Du Plessis guilty of tampering means the umpire can award an extra 5 runs so a loss by an innings and 80 runs becomes a mere innings and 75 runs:nod:

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To be fair, this did not come from Cricket Australia but the ICC

David Warner was saying that this incident had little outcome on the result

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That's not a technicality teach, that's the rules being applied

He's been done. Move on

As for cheating, there are plenty of incidents of Australia cheating if you want to go down that road!

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CA have distance themselves from it. Warner a minor comment.

Nice try though. Didn't work.

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You should have stayed up late and watched it. You might have been able to add value.

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And going even further back... I well remember as a boy watching Keith Miller running his fingers through his heavily Brylcreemed hair before bowling each ball! Spofforth "The Demon" may have done something similar, in the late 1800s.

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Was he using artificial substances to tamper with the ball as well? ;)

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I have moved on, I was responding to the 'nothing will happen to Faf' comment to put it in context. We can go down the road of only selecting your players from whites if you want which was a bit more than mints, brylcreem or bottle tops in the pocket.

Australia were pathetic in Sri Lanka and have been pathetic against SA. No excuses from me. End of.

It's interesting in the Wiki on ball tampering that it specifically mentions - Atherton, Tendulkar, Pakistan 2006, Anderson and Broad, Afridi, Du Plessis twice, Philander and Siddle who was accused by SL but cleared by ICC. Draw your own conclusions.

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I'll leave it to you to add value to the thread with banal and self-evident comments that we (to you they or them or the Aussies) need to bat better against swing or bowl with swing. That's as obvious and useful as me telling Andy Murray he needs to hit more balls in court or lose his service less often or break service more often.

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I see the appointment of Hick as batting coach is paying dividends. :D

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Yeah ....... Not a great choice.

Regardless, not much you can do against a ball ducking a diving around like the Saffa's have been able to do.

The only thing you can do is bowl just as well, and chew mints.

Makes for short tests though.

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That would be 3 tosses from 3 for Faf