Airdate: Caught Out
ABC will cover the Cricket ball-tampering scandal in a news special on Easter Monday.
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ABC will cover the Cricket ball-tampering scandal in a news special, Caught Out, at 7:30pm Easter Monday.
When did Australian cricket adopt a win-at-all-costs culture and when did it turn toxic? Presented by Paul Kennedy, Caught Out investigates what led to this cheating scandal and why Steve Smith, the man with the country’s highest sporting honour, played a key role.
Featuring interviews with former players and leaders of the game, Caught Out, will explore the following questions;
How does the ball tampering controversy compare to previous bad behaviour?
Who in the leadership team knew? Who drove it? And how far should the sanctions go?
What role did Steve Smith play?
At 26, Smith became the third youngest player to captain the Australian Test Team. It’s the biggest job in Australian sport with the role shouldering enormous pressure and responsibility in the big money era of the game.The stakes were high. If Australia won the series in South Africa, they would have claimed the World #2 Test ranking, edging closer to #1.
Smith has spoken publicly about his obsessive nature sometimes getting the better of him. What do we know about the character, influences and making of Steve Smith?
Where to now for the team, Aussie cricket fans and the game itself?
This will be a 45 minute special meaning the Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers special is now out of schedule. Maigret’s Dead Man will begin at 8:15pm.
9 Responses
The title is quite the pun – i like it 🙂
The Baggy green is given out in anticipation the player will represent it honestly. 3 players should hand theirs back.
When faced with an unwinnable position, a flat pitch and a soft ground that wasn’t going to rough up the ball so it would reverse, they cheated, got caught and have been punished according to the rules. As South Africa, Pakistan and England have before. The Kookaburra is a ball that does frequently nothing after the first few overs until one side is roughed up and it reverses. We are still the only side to bowl a ball underarm to stop the opponents scoring a six, forcing the rules to be changed though.
When has it not been toxic……. underarm bowling, sledging, the human headlines, match fixing, constant ball tampering but ….. slaps on the wrist. I gave up watching cricket for about 10 years and only started again in 2016 but noticed the sledging and aggression towards other countries is shocking. I am beginning to wonder why any sports person is paid so much to behave badly???
Seriously, this doesn’t need more air time!?!
No doubt there is a movie in the works about this scandal. As a cricket fan I am very disappointed with what has transpired.
Movie might be a bit of a stretch!
Many films made with far less material-if one was to broaden the scope to how sport got to that position, it could be as epic as ‘Chariots Of Fire’ (but much less uplifting…).
This would depend on the soundtrack. I’d suggest employing the services of John Williams.