Would it have been better to...

[golions]

Would it have been a better approach by Cricket Australia / Bancroft, Smith, Warner, Lehmann and co to just blanketly come out openly and admit what happened, cop the ICC penalty and then say "as a law abiding team, we accept the ICCs penalty" and just move on?

 

[big_e]

Would it have been better to stick this in one of the thousand other threads on this issue....

 

[golions]

Would it have been better to stick this in one of the thousand other threads on this issue....

the other threads seem to focus on the penalties to be handed out and general outrage

this thread is more directed at discussing whether a double down - accept ICC penalty and move on approach would have been better

 

[ZEV]

the other threads seem to focus on the penalties to be handed out and general outrage

this thread is more directed at discussing whether a double down - accept ICC penalty and move on approach would have been better

Absolutely. Anyone who thinks a year out of the game fits the crime has no idea what actually goes on in the world.

 

[The 747]

Absolutely. Anyone who thinks a year out of the game fits the crime has no idea what actually goes on in the world.

If you include their stupid actions after they got caught a year seems fine to me.

 

[The 747]

Would it have been a better approach by Cricket Australia / Bancroft, Smith, Warner, Lehmann and co to just blanketly come out openly and admit what happened, cop the ICC penalty and then say "as a law abiding team, we accept the ICCs penalty" and just move on?

They should have said nothing, let Bancroft cop the mild penalty and moved on.

 

[The Passenger]

Would it have been a better approach by Cricket Australia / Bancroft, Smith, Warner, Lehmann and co to just blanketly come out openly and admit what happened, cop the ICC penalty and then say "as a law abiding team, we accept the ICCs penalty" and just move on?

Doing so would have just been another example of the cricketing fraternity in Australia (from juniors right through to Cricket Australia) making excuses for Dave Warner and allowed the cancerous lack of leadership in the Australian team to spread further than it already had.

I think Steve Smith thought he was taking a bullet for Warner and would cop a fine, maybe a match suspension at worst.

So perhaps unwittingly he has set Australian cricket on the right path, although it is going to hurt us having a batsmen of Smith's calibre on the sidelines, particularly when the rest of the top seven is still quite shaky.

 

[Blue1980]

Doing so would have just been another example of the cricketing fraternity in Australia (from juniors right through to Cricket Australia) making excuses for Dave Warner and allowed the cancerous lack of leadership in the Australian team to spread further than it already had.

I think Steve Smith thought he was taking a bullet for Warner and would cop a fine, maybe a match suspension at worst.

So perhaps unwittingly he has set Australian cricket on the right path, although it is going to hurt us having a batsmen of Smith's calibre on the sidelines, particularly when the rest of the top seven is still quite shaky.

True but sometimes you never know who can step up.

Maybe Maxy can become a superstar?

 

[Kuuz]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

I think it was good it came out this way. Will hopefully lead the baggy green back to honourable conduct - letting their bat and ball speak and not the garbage we've watched for the last couple years.

Also hope the ICC now stop sitting on the fence and actually try and draw up some discrete rules on ball tampering.

 

[The Passenger]

True but sometimes you never know who can step up.

Maybe Maxy can become a superstar?

Yes hopefully someone does over the next little bit.

Cricket in Australia has been staggering around for the best part of decade. Some highlights here and there. Michael Clarke's batting for a period. Johnson going on a heater. Winning the world cup. Steve's Smith batting. The development of our quick bowlers.

But for the most part we've been wondering around drunk. The domestic scene has been shot to pieces with the all encompassing BBL taking over. I don't get to watch much grade cricket now but when I do the standard has dropped quite a bit. This has no doubt had a flow on effect to the Australian team.