When the ball-tampering scandal hit the Australian cricket team at Newlands during the third Test match against South Africa, the team spirit was put into question with reports of infighting becoming a regular feature. Now Mitchell Starc has shown his anger with the comments made during the first press conference where former captain Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft were present.
The left-arm pacer slammed the “the group who decided to go into a press conference” for “not telling the whole truth” that “affected other reputations”.
In the press conference at the end of the day’s play, Smith said that the decision to do what they did to the ball was made by “leadership group”.
“Going back to what Sue (corporate adviser Sue Cato) said before about being upfront and tackling a problem head on, that’s something the group who decided to go into a press conference didn’t really think about,” The Australian quoted Starc at a public forum in Sydney.
“They obviously didn’t see how big the reaction was going to be at that time and then went down the path of not telling the whole truth and then I guess involving another group, which ruined — well, not ruined — but affected other reputations.”
