Back to Newlands: Australia, Sandpapergate & a Changed Team | SA v AUS Preview | Podcast | FH1

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Australia returns to Newlands — the ground forever associated with one of the biggest controversies in modern cricket. In this episode of Sports TV, we preview Australia’s return to South Africa for Test cricket, while looking back at the history that makes this tour so much more than another overseas series. In 2018, Newlands became the centre of the ball-tampering scandal involving Cameron Bancroft, Steve Smith and David Warner. The incident triggered unprecedented disciplinary action from Cricket Australia, an independent cultural review and a fundamental examination of the culture surrounding the Australian team. Now, Australia returns to the same cricketing environment years later — but under a very different leadership structure and with a very different public identity. In this podcast, we explore: Australia’s return to Newlands The events of the 2018 ball-tampering scandal Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft’s suspensions How Cricket Australia responded to Sandp

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