@pooranian wrote:
But I totally understand his situation....the team is on decline and he is leading it at the moment. Accepting will take away atleast 4-5 guys from the team...With no proof, pat and his colleagues are safe...
i understand his situation as well. But he's behaving as if his listeners are idiots. Cummins' was a junior member of the team during that saga, like it was only his third test series, despite debuting in 2011. he could have come out not totally clean but with less dirt on himself than the other more experienced players. i have never trusted mitchell starc as a cricketer....imagine a left arm pacer averaging 26 which is high for a quick and that means a significant portion of the time he's very ordinary and he was ordinary in test cricket for a long time. shane warne used to pepper him with criticisms, who ironically is the same person who first indicated the sandpaper investigation was a hurry done thing. And as i said, the basic physical proof is that they were getting reverse early in an innings, since the PE test and the South Africans are convinced that they were doing it since the first Durban test(which is why faf du plessis had been watching their fielders with binoculars in both the PE and Cape town tests; the supersport camera crew had runners monitoring them as well.), and more so knew the lengths and lines to bowl to maximize its impact. Also, in order for the ball to continue reversing, the entire team had to know because you then had to manage the ball. if the ball got wet, for example, then that reverse swing stops
i mean Australian media has a fair bit of Nicolae Ceaușescu-type propaganda outlets in it, but that's a small percentage of the people who are covering this story so eventually those guys will have to front up, especially if smith, who has remained remarkably silent, comes out and says something
