{"id":24777,"date":"2018-03-25T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=24777"},"modified":"2018-03-25T09:48:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T09:48:17","slug":"ball-tampering-australian-captain-steve-smith-says-the-leadership-group-knew-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/ball-tampering-australian-captain-steve-smith-says-the-leadership-group-knew-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Tampering: Australian captain Steve Smith says The leadership group knew about it&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ball Tampering: Calls for captain Steve Smith to resign after Ball Tampering confession<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8N4BIiO_UF4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ball Tampering: Australian captain Steve Smith says The leadership group knew about it&#8217;<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-qYik0Lmg0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ball Tampering: Calls for Smith to resign after Ball Tampering confession &#8211; Australia cricket team admit cheating against South Africa after being caught ball-tampering &#8211; Australia captain Steve Smith has admitted that his side deliberately tampered with the ball during the third Test against South Africa after batsman Cameron Bancroft was seen taking out an object from his pocket while shining the ball. The incident, which has tarnished Australia\u2019s reputation on the international stage, took place during South Africa\u2019s second innings and the International Cricket Council [ICC] has already charged Bancroft, with Smith admitting that it was a decision taken by the \u201cleadership group\u201d within the team. \u201cThe leadership group knew about it, we spoke about it at lunch,\u201d Smith told a news conference. &#8220;I am not proud of what has happened. It\u2019s not in the spirit of the game, my integrity and the integrity of the team has been damaged and rightfully so. It&#8217;s not on, it&#8217;s certainly not and it won&#8217;t happen again under my leadership. &#8220;We thought it was a possible way to get an advantage, obviously it didn&#8217;t work. It was a poor choice and I deeply regret our actions. Source: Independent<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ball Tampering: Calls for captain Steve Smith to resign after Ball Tampering confession Ball Tampering: Australian captain Steve Smith says The leadership group knew about it&#8217; Ball Tampering: Calls for Smith to resign after Ball Tampering confession &#8211; Australia cricket team admit cheating against South Africa after being caught ball-tampering &#8211; Australia captain Steve Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1560,1550,2548],"tags":[3898,3897],"class_list":{"0":"post-24777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-cricket-news","9":"category-english-videos","10":"category-home","11":"tag-ball-tampering-confession","12":"tag-ball-tampering-calls-for-captain-steve-smith-to-resign-after-ball-tampering-confession","13":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ball Tampering: Calls for captain Steve Smith to resign after Ball Tampering confession<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ball Tampering: Calls for Smith to resign after Ball Tampering confession - Australia cricket team admit cheating against South Africa after being caught ball-tampering - Australia captain Steve Smith has admitted that his side deliberately tampered with the ball during the third Test against South Africa after batsman Cameron Bancroft was seen taking out an object from his pocket while shining the ball. The incident, which has tarnished Australia\u2019s reputation on the international stage, took place during South Africa\u2019s second innings and the International Cricket Council [ICC] has already charged Bancroft, with Smith admitting that it was a decision taken by the \u201cleadership group\u201d within the team. \u201cThe leadership group knew about it, we spoke about it at lunch,\u201d Smith told a news conference. &quot;I am not proud of what has happened. It\u2019s not in the spirit of the game, my integrity and the integrity of the team has been damaged and rightfully so. It&#039;s not on, it&#039;s certainly not and it won&#039;t happen again under my leadership. &quot;We thought it was a possible way to get an advantage, obviously it didn&#039;t work. It was a poor choice and I deeply regret our actions. 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The incident, which has tarnished Australia\u2019s reputation on the international stage, took place during South Africa\u2019s second innings and the International Cricket Council [ICC] has already charged Bancroft, with Smith admitting that it was a decision taken by the \u201cleadership group\u201d within the team. \u201cThe leadership group knew about it, we spoke about it at lunch,\u201d Smith told a news conference. &quot;I am not proud of what has happened. It\u2019s not in the spirit of the game, my integrity and the integrity of the team has been damaged and rightfully so. It&#039;s not on, it&#039;s certainly not and it won&#039;t happen again under my leadership. &quot;We thought it was a possible way to get an advantage, obviously it didn&#039;t work. It was a poor choice and I deeply regret our actions. 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The incident, which has tarnished Australia\u2019s reputation on the international stage, took place during South Africa\u2019s second innings and the International Cricket Council [ICC] has already charged Bancroft, with Smith admitting that it was a decision taken by the \u201cleadership group\u201d within the team. \u201cThe leadership group knew about it, we spoke about it at lunch,\u201d Smith told a news conference. \"I am not proud of what has happened. It\u2019s not in the spirit of the game, my integrity and the integrity of the team has been damaged and rightfully so. It's not on, it's certainly not and it won't happen again under my leadership. \"We thought it was a possible way to get an advantage, obviously it didn't work. It was a poor choice and I deeply regret our actions. 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