Cameron Bancroft News

Smith’s failure to intervene is, in fact, a leadership failure on his part—his looking the other way was, in effect, tacit approvalLeadership plays an important role in not only laying down the rules but ensuring that they are followed

What qualifies as ball tampering? Why is shining the ball with sweat and on your pants legal, but picking at it with sandpaper or fingernails not?

Darren Lehmann, the Australia cricket team coach, conceded that he should take some blame for the aggressive culture that has developed in the Australian team during his time at the helm

Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner were slapped with one-year bans for plotting the episode in which Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera pulling out sand paper to scruff up the ball

ICC chairman Shashank Manohar said tougher penalties were needed to avoid a repeat of the behaviour in South Africa of Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft that has thrown cricket into disrepute

Cameron Bancroft gets nine months as Cricket Australia punishes errant players

The Australian cricket team's tragic caper at Cape Town emanated from a cocktail of arrogance, foolishness, and fear of failure

Tim Paine has been named as the new Australia captain in place of Steve Smith, whose pre-meditated attempt to cheat has drawn condemnation from around the world

Here's an explainer on the ball tampering row that erupted during the third Test match between Australia and South Africa

Ball tampering has been around for decades in cricket and is back in the limelight after Australia's Cameron Bancroft used a yellow strip of sandpaper to alter the shape of the red cherry during the Australia vs South Africa Test