Ball-tampering: Cameron Bancroft a repeat offender? New video emerges from Ashes

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Cameron Bancroft was captured trying pocket a spoon of sugar during the Ashes series
  • Australia admitted to a deliberate plan to change the condition of the ball in Cape Town Test
  • Bancroft was handed three demerit points and a 75 per cent fine of his match fee
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Cameron Bancroft was handed three demerit points and a 75 per cent fine of his match fee (Reuters Photo)

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Cameron Bancroft was captured trying pocket a spoon of sugar during the Ashes series
  • Australia admitted to a deliberate plan to change the condition of the ball in Cape Town Test
  • Bancroft was handed three demerit points and a 75 per cent fine of his match fee

Australian cricket at large, and Cameron Bancroft in particular, just can't catch a break. Another video has emerged on social media platform from the Ashes series against England, which shows the maligned Australian opener allegedly trying to put a spoon of sugar in his pocket.

David Coverdale, a reporter from The Sun, has tweeted the video with the caption, "Here's Cameron Bancroft appearing to put sugar in his pocket against England in January..."

In the video Bancroft can be seen taking a spoon of sugar wit his right hand and then palming it with his left and in a slick movement pocket the sugar.

Stuart Broad, who is currently in New Zealand playing the first Test against New Zealand in Auckland, said that Australia were getting reverse swing in England and couldn't understand why Steve Smith & Co. needed to change the conditions of the ball if it was indeed the first time Australia have indulged in ball-tampering.

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"I saw Steve Smith in his press conference said it was the first time they've tried it, which to me, seems really surprising why they'd change a method that's been working," Board told reporters at Eden Park on Sunday.

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"Look at the Ashes series that we've just played. You look through virtually all of those Test matches and they reverse swung the ball in sometimes conditions that you wouldn't expect the ball to reverse, so I don't understand why they've changed their method for this one game."

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"I don't know," the 31-year-old added. "Steve said it's the first time they've tried it. There's no evidence that they were doing this in the Ashes series, from what I've seen."

Bancroft, who was caught on camera attempting to alter the condition of the ball, was handed three demerit points and a 75 per cent fine of his match fee, while his captain has been suspended and fined 100 per cent of his match fee for one Test by the International Cricket Council. Steve Smith has also stepped down as the Australian skipper and is awaiting Cricket Australia's judgment.

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