Inside The Cheating Scandals

Two weeks after Australia was caught palying foul, the explosive fallout continues.

Heads rolled, the coach quit and the remaining members of the Australian Test Team have been left “devastated,” a source close to the squad tells WHO. Since the cheating scandal that sensationally played out on Cape Town’s Newlands Cricket Ground on March 24, captain Steve Smith, 28, and vice captain Dave Warner, 31, have lost their jobs playing international and domestic cricket for a year, and batsman Cameron Bancroft, 25, was handed a 9-month ban.

“I know I’ll regret this for the rest of my life; I’m absolutely gutted,” said Smith of his role in the ball-tampering incident during the Third Test of the South African tour. “I made a serious error of judgement, and I now understand the consequences.” At press time, however, Smith and alleged instigator Warner were reportedly planning on fighting those punishments, amid buzz there is still much to unfold in a saga that has left a nation of cricket tragics reeling.

1 ARE THE THREE AUSTRALIANS APPEALING THEIR PUNISHMENTS?