LANGER'S HEALING WAYS SET TO TAKE SOME TIME...
The Cricket Paper|May 11,2018

LANGER’S HEALING WAYS SET TO TAKE SOME TIME...

Isabelle Westbury
LANGER'S HEALING WAYS SET TO TAKE SOME TIME...

As Cameron Bancroft hastily shoved something yellow down his trousers in full view of a dozen television cameras, the hashtag #sandpapergate started trending. Little did the internet know at that moment in time how apt the label was to become.

Following a public denial, only days later was it in fact confirmed, Cluedoesque, that it had been Mr Bancroft, on the cricket pitch, with a piece of sandpaper. The act, of ball-tampering, was illegal but it was the cover-up, the lie in the immediate aftermath, which turned Smith, Bancroft and subsequently Warner into condemned men.

That they should lie over something so trivial, so prevalent, seems incredulous in the scheme of things. Yet both Bancroft and Smith, flustered and under pressure having been caught red-handed, panicked. Ball-tampering, as admitted by many, is widespread, condoned even by the authorities at times. The ensuing fabrications, poorly executed and quickly proven, less so.

President Nixon may be forgiven for thinking no one might have found out his misdemeanor. The wonder now, with such advances in technology and surveillance, is that anyone still believes that the truth won’t come out in the end.

Yet cover-ups continue. Politics offer many examples. Remember Chris Huhne, once the Energy and Climate Change Secretary? He got a few speeding points on his driving licence; we’re all prone to it on occasion. The jail sentence was for lying about it. Damian Green is a more recent casualty. Pornography had been found on his computer in 2008, not an illegal act at the time. Only Green denied it was his, which turned out to be a lie. He resigned.

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