Published: October 26, 2018
- Faf du Plessis wants good-natured series
- First of three ODIs takes place in Perth next month
South African captain Faf du Plessis says his team will not sledge Australia about ball tampering during the Proteas’ ODI tour, and he hopes his players get booed by hostile crowds. Du Plessis insists there is no bad blood between the two sides despite Australian cricket plunging to its lowest depths during last year’s doomed Test tour of South Africa.
Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were all handed lengthy bans after being found guilty of ball tampering on that tour. South African broadcasters were tipped off that Australian players were tampering, and they eventually caught Bancroft using sandpaper to alter the state of the ball. Bancroft then shoved the sandpaper down his pants to try to hide the evidence.
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