Australian pacer Mitchell Starc, finally opening up on the ball tampering scandal, said that he was angered when he was dragged into the Newlands controversy in March when Steven Smith said it was the decision of the “leadership group” to use a foreign object to tamper the ball. For most of the times, the leadership group also included senior bowlers like Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon.
Australian pacer Mitchell Starc, finally opening up on the ball tampering scandal, said that he was angered when he was dragged into the Newlands controversy in March when Steven Smith said it was the decision of the “leadership group” to use a foreign object to tamper the ball. For most of the times, the leadership group also included senior bowlers like Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon.
The bowling department showed displeasure when they were linked David Warner’s instruction to Cameron Bancroft, which was approved by Smith, for tampering the ball in the Newlands Test against South Africa. While the truth had come out the very next day, the three guilty were slammed with severe bans. While Bancroft was handed a nine-month suspension, Smith and Warner not on;ly lost their leadership roles but also were banned for a year each.
Starc spoke to the media at a Women in Banking and Finance forum in Sydney on Friday. In the same press conference, corporate adviser Sue Cato had discussed the pitfalls of poorly-prepared press conferences. Continuing the same subject, Starc went on to add, “Going back to what Sue said before about being upfront and tackling a problem head on, that's something the group who decided to go into a press conference didn't really think about.”
"They obviously didn't see how big the reaction was going to be at that time and then went down the path of not telling the whole truth and then I guess involving another group, which ruined - well, not ruined - but affected other reputations,” Starc said in an interview recently,” the fast bowler added.
After the ball tampering issue was discussed in detail in Cricket Australia, it was revealed to the media that then CA CEO James Sutherlands was not aware of the fold of events until Smith and Bancroft’s press conference at the end of that day’s play. When Smith and Warner finally spoke to Sutherland, they were right away told that they were no longer the captain and deputy of the Australian cricket team.
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