Cricket is World's second most popular sport with 2.5 billions estimated fans. It is also immensely popular sport in Australia, So the news of tampering of ball quickly went viral throughout social media.
Not only the reputation of Australian team shattered but it alos angered the big guns which will have negative effect on sponsorship deals.
Australian cricket team caption Steve smith came up with the plan along with senior players to tamper during the match against south Africa. the player was caught taking out tape from his pocket and rubbing it on the ball on camera. This method is very effective, Making the ball unpredictable in air whilst making it difficult for batman to accurately judge ball's trajectory.
Not only that but Steve Smith(Team's caption), admitted that he devised a plan to tamper with the ball against South Africa. The plan was devised in desperation to fight against South African cricket team reported Steve Smith and while embarrassed and regretful, said he will not resign from the captaincy .
What is worse is yet to come, After making illegal schemes to win match and confessing he cheated in front of camera he said “I still think I’m the right person for the job,”. Steve smith is one of the worlds best batsman but making such statement after a shameful act made his fall inevitable.
Also South African's team still scored against Australia’s Evil tactics , which made a remarkable victory for the other country.
The captain has stepped down from Australian team for the remainder of the match against South Africa and resigned of Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals. Steve smith was also fined for his entire payment against south Africa match.
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