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The harder you step in mess, the more it spreads. Last Saturday Cricket Australia found a flaming bag of Steve Francis Jersey the stuff on its doorstep and, just like the headteacher in the high school movie, decided the best way http://www.atlantafalcons.us.com/WOMENS-DUKE-RILEY-JERSEY.html to put it out was to stamp right down on it. CA has banned Steve Smith and David Warner from all state and international cricket for a year, Cameron Authentic Dan Feeney Jersey Bancroft for nine months, and ordered all three to do 100 hours of community service. Smith will not be eligible for any kind of leadership role in the Australian team for another two years, Warner ever again. The three, and their lawyers, have seven days to appeal. The crime was petty, the cover-up clumsy, the punishment swift and vicious. Warner and Smith have both been cut from this year’s Indian Premier League, too. Outside of the treatment given to match fixers, there is no precedent in cricket for such heavy sentences. They are certainly not in line with those given to the other players who have been Dennis Rodman Authentic Jersey caught ball-tampering in recent years. But then CA did not charge these three with that, but with conduct unbecoming and bringing the game into disrepute. Which are such nebulous offences that it makes it hard to judge whether or not the punishments fit the crime.

If they were even supposed to. Those charges suggest CA was more worried about addressing the outcry than the offence. And even then, it is not clear whether it wanted to appease its public, who are split Womens KeiVarae Russell Jersey about whether http://www.newenglandpatriotsauthorizedstore.com/derek-rivers-jersey-elite or not the bans are appropriate, or its sponsors http://www.footballbillsofficialshop.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_JIM_KELLY_JERSEY.html and broadcast partners. It was only last week that CA knocked back a joint bid from the Nine and Ten networks for its TV rights because it was too low. Seven days later, CA’s negotiating position does not look http://www.falconsfootballofficialproshop.com/YOUTH+LAROY+REYNOLDS+JERSEY quite so strong. But such is modern sport. It is not just the fans and your coach to whom you have to answer.

Besides, sympathy for the three banned players is tempered by the sorry details laid out in CA’s press release. Warner came up with the plan to cheat, taught Bancroft how to do it, Smith signed it off, and then all three tried to cover it up. What’s worse, Smith and Bancroft had lied in their confessional press conference last Saturday night, when they insisted Bancroft had not been using sandpaper but sticky tape.
According to the investigation, all the other people in the Australian dressing room, the coaches and team-mates, the bowlers who were actually handling the ball, knew nothing about the plan until they saw it unfold on TV, when Darren Lehmann is supposed to have called the 12th man, Peter Handscomb, to ask him to find out “what the fuck is going on”. Then he questioned the players after the close of play. It is a convenient truth for CA, and close to the best-case scenario it must have wished for when the news broke.
A lot of prominent ex-players expressed a measure of scepticism about the initial findings, notably Michael Clarke, who wrote two pointed tweets after Cricket Australia’s chief executive, James Sutherland, gave his press conference on Tuesday night. “Too many reputations on the line for the full story not to come out,” Clarke said. “The truth, the full story, accountability and leadership – until the public get this Australian cricket is in deep shit!”
On Tuesday night Sutherland sounded like a man reading from a textbook on damage limitation. He spoke about rebuilding trust with the public but failed to convince his audience that he was being entirely honest himself. cheap nfl jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys cheap jerseys cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys from china wholesale nfl jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys from china wholesale nfl jerseys