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How the ball tampering incident that shocked the cricketing world unfolded
Australia is in crisis. Its cricket team is so essential to its national self-image that the cheating incident in the third test against SA has thrown the entire country off centre. To recap: on Saturday March 24, Australian player Cameron Bancroft removed a flat yellow object from his pocket and, gripping it on the inside of his hand, rubbed it against the cricket ball. A SuperSport cameraman, apparently alerted to be on the lookout for the possibility of this sort of event by former fast bowler "Vinnige" Fanie de Villiers, zoomed in on Bancroft’s hands as he roughly caressed the Kookaburra. Australian coach Darren Lehmann saw the video footage and sent a "12th man" onto the field to inform Bancroft that he had been caught yellow-handed. Bancroft then removed the yellow object from his pocket and dropped it into his underpants. A cameraman filmed this entire incident in high definition. The umpires confronted Bancroft, who at first denied it, but later all hell broke loose. By the ...
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