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Coach set to resign amid ball-tampering scandal
    2018-03-28  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

DARREN LEHMANN is set to step down as Australian cricket coach following the ball-tampering scandal that also looks likely to claim the captaincy of Steve Smith and vice captaincy of David Warner, with the head of Cricket Australia arriving in South Africa cricket to begin an investigation.

The cricket world was rocked Saturday when 25-year-old batsman Cameron Bancroft was caught trying to change the state of the ball on day three of the third Test against South Africa after he rubbed a piece of yellow sticky tape with dirt stuck to it on the rough side of the ball in order to try and produce reverse swing.

After replays of it was shown on the big screen at Newlands, Bancroft reacted by putting the tape down the front of his trousers, before confessing in a press conference later that day to deliberately ball-tampering and “panicking” once he realized he had been caught.

But the crisis deepened in the same press conference when captain Smith admitted that the decision to cheat had been premeditated by the “leadership group” of the team, and a furious backlash now looks set to claim the jobs of both head coach Lehmann and players Smith and Warner, who are facing lengthy bans from Cricket Australia.

According to The Telegraph, Lehmann will resign from his role before the fourth Test against South Africa begins Friday, one year ahead of his planned departure after the 2019 Ashes series. During last Saturday’s press conference, Smith said that Lehmann and the rest of the coaching staff were unaware of the ball-tampering plan, but former Australia captain Michael Clarke believes that Lehmann’s future is damned either way.(SD-Agencies)

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