The Awkward Truth: Cricket's Dirty Little Ball Tampering Secret

Warner, ball tampering and an A game in the twilight zone.

At first sniff you got to wonder why David Warner would wander into an alleged ball tampering debate involving the visiting Australia A side.

The Bull clearly doesn’t want a quiet life.

It was, however, a question he was asked and pertinent to a topic which he has a right to have strong opinions on. Warner served a 12 month ban for his role as instigator in the sandpaper incident and received a life time leadership ban.

It is hard to remember a player ever enduring the level of criticism and condemnation he did then, and since. Some still believe he deserved a life ban for an act that usually results in a one match penalty at best. If that.