This is nothing. The kind of cheating that happened in 2004 era was on a completely different level. It happened openly, live on television, in front of the entire world, and nobody dared to stop them. The same thing happened during the 2007 Monkeygate Test, when even Sunil Gavaskar was furious on live commentary.
Not true. There was a 3-year period where Ganguly outscored Tendulkar the ODI opener at his pomp. It does not get bigger than that.
Ganguly was ahead of his time as well, he stepped out to fast bowlers, tonked Ntini over midwicket when these things were just not done. He also made opponent captains leave their leftarm spinners out of even the squad.
Dada was an above average test bat, but an extraordinary ODI bat. We had been scarred by SL and he tonked them in a WC and exorcised those ghosts.
Ball was moving a mile sideways. u were the biggest beneficiary but, knew nothing. never thought why ball was reversing that big. Then released statement taking no responsibility and telling us a youngster into his 8th game took such a big decision on his own. Totally believable
So all the Aussies cheated in Sandpaper-gate, then most of them lied about cheating, and now they’re lying about their lying about their cheating? The idea the bowlers didn’t know the ball was being heavily manipulated is ridiculous unless they all lost their vision and the senses in their hands. Just admit it!
Mitchell Johnson "The idea that a ball could be scuffed with sandpaper and the bowlers wouldn't notice didn't make sense to me and to plenty of people who have played the game. What disappoints me is the thought that a whole team knew and let three players take the hit" #Cricket
So Cummins and Co., arguably the greatest pace attack in cricket’s history, conspired with the team to sandpaper the ball and then let Smith, Warner and Bancroft take the fall? They took wickets with that sand-papered ball but wouldn’t take the blame? Well done!
WI needed 6 runs, 1 wicket in hand… McGrath vs Brian Lara. No T20 thriller can EVER touch this! 🥶
And then the whole crowd ran onto the pitch in the end…🤯