Gilchrist blames CA for not getting to root of 2018 ball-tampering scandal
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"I think Cricket Australia are responsible for why this will be continually asked. When they did their investigation at the time they had Patty Howard the high-performance general manager, Iain Roy was the integrity officer," said Gilchrist on show.
"I think Cricket Australia are responsible for why this will be continually asked. When they did their investigation at the time they had Patty Howard the high-performance general manager, Iain Roy was the integrity officer," said Gilchrist on SEN's Gilly and Goss show. "They went there and did this very quick review of that isolated incident and perhaps no one in the team knew," added Gilchrist. On Monday, another former Aussie cricketer, Michael Clarke said that he was not surprised by Cameron Bancroft saying that bowlers too were aware of the ball-tampering tactics of the team during a Test against South Africa in 2018. "Anyone would be naive to think people were not aware with what was going on about ball maintenance. I don't think Cricket Australia wanted to go there. They did not want to go any deeper than that superficial example of ball-tampering," said Gilchrist. "They did not investigate to see whether it was systemic had it been going on and on and on. Around the cricketing globe it was widely accepted a lot of teams were doing it," he said. "Perhaps Cam (Bancroft) did grab the sandpaper on his own accord and walked out there and did not tell anyone. There was an opportunity for CA if they were going to make such a strong statement they needed to do a more thorough investigation to work out where the root of the problem was," said Gilchrist.More Related News