Australian Cricket Association's 1 year banned on Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft after Tampering scandal is right ?

          Regarding all the controversy in South Africa, I think Australian Cricket Association control the situation after the controversy perfectly. Atleast they come up strong to players involved and show some promising sign to secure people’s trust in Australian Cricket. I know people were shattered when they announced 12 months banned to Steve Smith and David Warner and 9 month banned to young Cameron Bancroft. Normal ICC punishment on this type of action is just 1 match banned and 100% match fees, which is not weirder because they have categorized every cheating into some hypothetical groups. I know people are been dragging this too much and people will for some more time but the fact is that they did it and they have to pay to set an example. I remember the time I use to play sports, the only two things matter when you are out there competing is that, one you respect your opponent and other is that you don’t cheat. It’s that simple guys! Anyone with any little experience in the sports can provide you with this extremely basic information. We are at the point in the time where sports are been providing with bigger picture than they use to, people around the world know the meaning of sports because they are in their purest form. And violating basic necessity of the process must be treated with full aggressiveness.


          Everything happening in this past some days come as a shock to Steve and David because they knew that even if they got caught the only price they will be playing is nothing in compare to their bank balance, isn’t it the reason they even had a thought of doing so? I mean let’s be honest here and think, let do some math. If ICC will ban player for 1 match and have to give away the 100% match fees of the match he got caught for, we will be looking at 2 match fees, which is not more than 14 lakh Indian Rupees (roughly $21450 usd).This mean that even if you mess up this plan you will be giving up near to 1% of your annual salary. Pretty OK for winning games, right! I mean come on if that’s the amount in which we can literally buy a player who can cheat on field and take the blame and still go away with good amount of money, plus we won’t need a player to do so, any man with hands and some guts and balls can do. So basically it all sums up in a big conclusion, ICC’s so called mulct is smiley chocolate flavor yogurt (SHIT). 


          On the other side people have been asking for reduction of ban on Aussie players. Specially after tomorrow’s event when Steve Smith break down and sobbed when he faced media after being sent home and removed as a Australian captain. For an instinct it felt like it was a rookie mistake but come on who are we fooling here? Neither Steve Smith nor David Warner is any way near rookie. I think the punishment is completely valid and in fact I think that the this is the most positive thing came out of Australian Cricket board in a decade. I mean they are the real hero’s here. The way they own up to the fact and show ICC that whatever they think is right is certainly not and especially not now. They said “shut up ICC! Your rules are dumb, doesn’t make any sense.” I mean they never said that but deep down inside they knew that they are saying that by showing extreme separation of punishments to the players.


          So the question here is, 1 year banned on all of these players is a genuine punishment? And the answer my friend is up to you. But before you make any conclusion all I can say is that there is only one thing is sport we must not do and that’s cheating. It’s simple as fuck but yet if you’re thinking else ways then just remember that you must know that there is no levels of cheating, because certainly ICC and Steve Smith didn’t knew about it.

FUCK FACT: Cameron Bancroft has played only 8 international test matches. 

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