Tag: Steve Smith

Darren Sammy has praised the former Australian captain Steve Smith for not running away from his responsibility when Australia’s plan of tampering the ball in the third test match against South Africa was caught on television. Smith was the skipper of Australia in that game and he came out in open and accepted in front of the press that he had prior knowledge of the plan and he was responsible for all that as a captain as he was the one who allowed it to happen.

Smith was subsequently sacked as the Australian captain and was banned from playing international cricket by his domestic board cricket Australia for a period of 12 months. Smith also had to withdraw from IPL 11 as BCCI decided not to include the tainted cricketers in the league as the reputation of the league had already taken a knock in the past few editions.
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