Tag: Ball tampering

Australian cricketer Cameron Bancroft has been caught on video shoving some yellow sticky tape into his underpants. I saw an opportunity ... to change the conditions of the ball.” The aim was to get “an unresponsive ball to swing” or to damage the ball to the point that it would have to be replaced. Quick guide Ball tampering What is ball tampering? Paradise is a relative experience, of course. The Home Affairs department, the federal government, the minister Peter Dutton, fought the action in court. Surely a government minister actively denying care to a suicidal little boy is “shameful ignominy”? Cameron Bancroft shouldn’t have cheated. It isn’t leadership to assume that the moral rules somehow don’t apply to you. Australian outrage over ball tampering born out of team’s moralising hypocrisy | Kate O'Halloran Read more Yet even broader moral licensing is seemingly afforded to all of us by what our real national leadership is doing in our name. But Australia’s biggest moral leadership failures are a lot more serious than sticky tape on a ball.