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Sandpaper made Australia the story in 2018 while South Africa’s achievement faded into irrelevance
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The hosts’ stunning Test victory was overshadowed by the scale of national angst felt in Australia after the team’s ball tampering For South African cricketers, administrators and supporters, the most surprising aspect of the Sandpaper scandal was not that it happened. After all,
The hosts’ stunning Test victory was overshadowed by the scale of national angst felt in Australia after the team’s ball tampering For South African cricketers, administrators and supporters, the most surprising aspect of the Sandpaper scandal was not that it happened. After all, the ball had been suspiciously reverse-swinging during the first two Tests of that ill-fated series in 2018. The atmosphere had turned febrile after a stairwell bust-up between Quinton de Kock and David Warner in Durban and after supporters directed misogynistic abuse at Warner and his family in Gqeberha.
Nathan Lyon had promised before the tour to “head-butt the line” of what was acceptable. Darren Lehmann, then Australia’s coach, came from an old school where bullying was sugar-coated with the phrase “mental disintegration”. No, what surprised South Africans most was the scale of the fallout, and how one tiny piece of sandpaper could cause so much national angst.
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