David Saker, Australia’s bowling coach throughout the notorious ball-tampering collection in 2018, mentioned Cameron Bancroft’s bombshell that Australian bowlers knew what was taking place shouldn’t be going to be the final phrase spoken on the incident.
Saker, who left his publish in early 2019, didn’t specify who else knew what however mentioned that there have been “a lot of people to blame” for the ‘Sandpaper-gate’ scandal, based on The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.
“It could have been stopped and it wasn’t, which is unfortunate. Cameron’s a very nice guy. He’s just doing it to get something off his chest… He’s not going to be the last,” Saker mentioned.
“You could point your finger at me, you could point your finger at Boof [then coach Darren Lehmann], could you point it at other people, of course you could… We all know that we made a monumental mistake. The gravity wasn’t as plain until it all came out,” he added.
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Cricket Australia issued an announcement following Bancroft’s remarks, saying that the governing physique was open to any new info regarding the incident.
“CA has maintained all along that if anyone is in possession of new information in regards to the Cape Town Test of 2018 they should come forward and present it,” the governing physique mentioned.
This adopted an interview the place Bancroft hinted Australia’s bowlers might have identified sandpaper was getting used on the ball throughout the third Test towards South Africa at Newlands.
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