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"The Ball Tempering Saga : Recent Cricket Blunder in the history of Cricket Australia."

The scandal shook the cricketing world when Steven Smith and David Warner came up with what was happened to be an unethical decision of tampering the ball to gain an upper hand in the test match against South Africa when the bowlers failed to get reverse swing or any sideways movement and also did not get any assistance from the pitch only leading to ruin their careers and faced the dire consequences which they never would have realised in the future. The incident took place during the Third Test match against South Africa in Cape Town when Cameron Bancroft was caught by television cameras trying to rough up one side of the ball with sandpaper to make it swing in flight while Captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner were found to be involved and all three received unprecedented lengthy bans from international and domestic cricket from Cricket Australia. Steve Smith and David Warner were given one year ban, while Cameron Bancroft was given 9 months of ban. This scand