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Sandpapergate revival ‘doesn’t help’ Steve Smith captaincy push, Mark Taylor says – Wide World of Sports
‘No doubt about it, it doesn’t help his case’
Steve Smith’s push to captain Australia has been set back by the resurgence of the ball-tampering scandal, former Test skipper Mark Taylor says.
Taylor, one of Smith’s staunchest supporters, also backed Australia’s bowlers from the Cape Town Test in insisting that they were an unwitting part of ‘Sandpapergate’.
Smith lost his Australian captaincy and copped a 12-month playing ban over the ball-tampering plot; which he failed to stop, as opposed to initiating. Taylor believes that he can return as…
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