This will stay with Steve Smith for ever. No matter what he achieves in terms of winning series, scoring match-winning hundreds or lifting World Cups, it will always be remembered that he cheated.

There was no excuse for what Australia did and I can only think it is a sign that winning means too much to this team. They have to win at all costs, regardless of laws or consequences. They just cannot accept that sometimes the opposition play better.

How they thought they would not get caught with all the cameras at a ground these days is beyond me. It was utterly brainless, or perhaps desperation to beat the system. You probably would have got away with it in the Seventies and Eighties, but not in...