David Saker, the former Australia bowling coach, has said there were “a lot of people to blame” for the 2018 ball-tampering affair that has resurfaced following Cameron Bancroft’s recent interview with the Guardian. Saker, the coach of the seamers at the time before leaving his post in 2019, has acknowledged that talk of wider culpability is inevitable. Saker told The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald: “Obviously a lot of things went wrong at that time. There was a lot of people to blame. I looked at Steve Smith who shot a glance that said: ‘Ooh, you shouldn’t have said that.’”

Source: The Guardian May 16, 2021 16:07 UTC