‘Australia wanted to bully us,’ says Faf du Plessis of the infamous ball-tampering controversy of the 2018 Test series. Cameron Bancroft see camera inserting a sandpaper piece down his pants. Which lead to the discovery.
Australia’s infamous Test series against South Africa startled the world after Australian players implicate in a ball-tampering incident. Giving rise to the moniker “The Sandpaper Gate.” Former South African captain Faf du Plessis, who was at the South African camp during Australia’s tour, made a critical remark about David Warner, one of the major instigators of the incident.
The infamous Test series between Australia and South Africa took place four years ago. Warner, the team’s vice-captain. Skipper Steve Smith were both given lengthy suspensions once their involvement reveal. While the Australian media has recently depicted David Warner in a different light, Faf du Plessis is still upset over his role in the ball-tampering scandal.
“Australia wanted to bully us. We had to stand up for ourselves. They abused us that whole game but the way we fought back turned the series around. He(Warner) was a bully. I don’t have time for bullies,”
Du Plessis said.
We suspected that the ball had been nurtured by someone: Du Plessis, Faf
In his memoirs, Faf: Through Fire, the Protean shed light on the tragic happenings of that series. He added that the South African squad was skeptical of the amount of reverse swing generated by the Australian pacers. In comparison to the Protean pacers. He reveale that whenever the ball throw. Warner on the field, the players kept a close eye on him.
“Mitchell Starc claimed nine wickets, and although I regard him as one of the best proponents of reverse-swing bowling I have ever seen or faced, those deliveries in Durban were borderline unplayable. He would come in around the wicket with a badly deteriorated ball and get it to hoop past us.
“When we noticed that the ball was going to David Warner quite often – our changing room must have looked like a birdwatching hide as we peered intently through our binoculars. There was a visible difference between how Mitchell Starc got the ball to reverse in the first Test in Durban and the final Test in Johannesburg,”
he wrote.
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