Sport
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…
-
Noosa News15 hours agoWoman dead and man rushed to hospital with gunshot wound following crash near Aussie World on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast
-
General21 hours agoBoy dies after being trapped between rocks off NSW beach
-
Noosa News22 hours agoFarmer Fred Perry’s 30-year conservation project creates bird haven after years of ‘bashing and burning’
-
Noosa News22 hours agoDetectives continue to search for answers on Crystal Beale’s death