Former Australia bowling coach David Saker said that Cricket Australia (CA) should make its investigation into the 2018 ball-tampering scandal to the public in order to shut the questions surrounding the Cape Town scandal, saying he can't understand why CA isn’t releasing the report.
The infamous ball-tampering scandal once again came into the light when Cameron Bancroft hinted that the bowlers including Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, and Nathan Lyon in the Australian team might have been aware of the plot to use sandpaper to alter the ball's condition in the 2018 Test match in Cape Town, South Africa.
He wants the country's cricket board to make its investigation report into the 2018 ball-tampering scandal public as he feels releasing that report might end the questions surrounding the incident.
However, CA chief Nick Hockley had already made it clear that the Australia board does not intend to make the ball-tampering investigation report public, but Saker feels they should the make report public as it may stop the questions regarding the infamous saga back in 2018.
According to the local media, Saker said: “I can't see any point why it wouldn't be released, but that's, yeah that's up to them the way they want to handle that.”
On being asked why the CA should release the investigation report, the former bowling coach said: “Because these questions keep coming up, maybe if it's released, then maybe questions might stop but I don't think they will and the questions will keep getting asked.”
Saker also insisted that neither he nor his bowlers were any knowledge of the plot in the Cape Town Test. He explained, “Well, there's no doubt I had no idea there was any sandpaper involved. As far as we knew that we were using normal tactics to get the ball reverse-swinging so that's as far as I know.”
He signed off by saying, “We've all gone in and did our bit so I can't see it going any further, but the questions will keep coming. There's no doubt about that, but that's just a part of life, you got to deal with that but it's never going to go away, that's for sure.”
(With PTI Inputs)
