Cricket cheats deserve much more than slap on the wrist

SO, James Sutherland, CEO of Cricket Australia, said there are “significant sanctions” heading in the direction of Steve Smith, Cameron Bancroft and David Warner with “further penalties” to come.

Just as I thought, Cricket Australia doesn’t have the balls to sack the cheats to show the world that Australia, the country now holding the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, can play fair and square and that those athletes taking part in the Commonwealth Games should not be looked at sideways, just in case there are even more cheats taking part in yet another sporting event.

What is it with those found to be ‘cheating’ in one form or another in Australian sports, that they are not dealt with in the correct manner. Instead they’ve been given a slap on the wrist with a wet bus ticket and sent off to take part in the next event.

I would suggest that the past couple (at the very least) of years of cricket Test videos involving Australian cricketers get scrutinized thoroughly (by an independent body of course), to see just how far back this cheating goes.

This will certainly not be all that’s happened (as is slowly transpiring) but will just be the tip of the iceberg and we know how big they can be.

Just imagine if this situation had involved any of the other countries in the world.

Australian cricket, the cricketers and the entire cricketing population of Australia would have been baying for blood and would not desist until all those involved were so totally vilified that there was no option but to have them thrown out of the game forever – not just sent home with significant sanctions being imposed with further penalties to come. What a farce yet again.

I await with bated breath to see what the sanctions and further penalties actually mean as far as Cricket Australia are concerned.