May 18, 2021 - 2:20 AM
SYDNEY (AP) â Four bowlers in the Australian cricket lineup embroiled in a 2018 cheating scandal in South Africa issued a joint statement Tuesday rejecting renewed speculation they were aware a teammate was using sandpaper to change the condition of the ball.
The so-called Sandpapergate rocked world cricket, resulting in lengthy suspensions for Australia captain Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner, opening batter Cameron Bancroft and the exit of senior officials.
Speculation that other players were aware of the ball-tampering plot in a test match in Cape Town was revived on the weekend when a British newspaper quoted Bancroft saying it was âself-explanatoryâ, when asked if the bowlers were aware of it.
Australian bowlers call for end to Sandpapergate innuendo
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Australian bowlers call for end to Sandpapergate innuendo
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In crucial byelection, a country website fills a political news void
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Even 72-year-old Kate Fraser has realised that the future of political campaigning is digital.
In a byelection where the stakes are unexpectedly high, Fraser is one of 13 candidates looking for clever ways to reach 55,000 voters in the Upper Hunter, a seat of rolling hills about 200 kilometres north of Sydney that is the centre of the state’s horse breeding and coal mining industries.
Scone.com.au managing director Elizabeth Flaherty, right, and cadet journalist Taylah Fellows working from a Scone cafe.
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To share her anti-mining, pro-public transport message, Fraser has settled on a behemoth and a minnow: Facebook and Scone.com.au, a hyper-local news website.