SANDPAPER DOCUMENTARY - PART ONE (The Cause) 

Man was just crying wiping tears and narrating the whole documentary. What a legend

One of the series that should've been mentioned was Australia's tour of India in 2017. There were incidents of bad behavior from both sides but Steve Smith looking up at the dressing room to get help with a DRS decision topped it off. He was labeled as a cheat but escaped any punishment. Had he been punished i doubt the SA saga would have happened.

Please dont make Warner thr victim here and SA players, their supporters and the media the bad guys. australia does the sake thing at home and according to a many senior and respectable players like Graeme Smith, Warner has crossed the line many times. Great content but no sympathy should be shown to either Warner or Smith for cheating the game. I also remember Smith letting Hazlewood abuse the third umpire in a game against NZ for a right decision being given for NZ and also looking at dressing room for DRS against India. That aint no brain fade. Great content tbh but Warner and Smith are not victims.

I love they way you insinuate that South Africa/Proteas are to blame for Smith/Warner cheating. Typical!

Really going out of your way to paint South Africa as the problem here rather than the Australian Team culture at the time... going out of your way to find excuses for Warner. Its the broadcasters, its the South African fans, it De Kock... so Tim Paine says de Kock said something so his word is gospel and justifies Warners on field behavior and comments which are simply brushed over? You're going a long way to paint Warner in as positive a light as possible, rather than what he is on the field... a prick. I thought the failures in team culture (Warner being a key part of that) was supposed to be the whole lesson from this ordeal. Yet it seems as though people have learnt nothing. The reason this become such a big deal, wasn't because what the players did was the worst thing in cricket history. It wasn't. The reason it became so bad was because it deconstructed this idealized "holier than thou" image of the Australian Cricket team and exposed the reality to Australians that every other team and country already knew and saw... That they were no better than anyone else, in fact, in some aspects they were worse.

Bancroft told the truth when he said the bowlers knew all about the ball-tampering. But Starc, Cummins, Lyon etc have got away scot-free.

There is no way that Cape Town was the first time the Australians used sandpaper on the ball.

so they were told prior to the 2017 ashes to tamper with the ball "if that's what it takes", but didn't until the following series? Given how much earlier than England they were getting movement in that ashes I think that's nonsense. They'd been cheating before they set down in South Africa

This is great. I think it's overly generous to David Warner, who has a *very* long history of abusing the opposition at all levels. If you live by the sword you die by the sword. It reminds me of the exchange with Sarwan where McGrath lost his rag because Lara said something about his wife (who was ill with cancer), but McGrath started it by making sexual innuendos. You can't have it both ways. You can't say, as it appears Warner does, I'm the arbiter of what is and isn't off limits for discussion (and I do know what the masks are about). It has always been my opinion (nothing else) that Warner was the drive behind sandpaper-gate. Steve Smith may have been very naive and foolish but he's never struck me as someone who would do *anything* to win (other than batting superbly of course !)

Only watched part 1 so far but... I think the claim that sledging /verbal attacks on players is an accepted part of cricket highlights a very Aussie centric view of the game. Its certainly not considered in the spirit elsewhere and has been a point of contention for decades. Maybe I have an England centric view but behaving like that has seen people dropped from sides I play for and skipper. The hubris of an Aussie side that has consistently claimed to define the line of what is and is not acceptable behaviour on the field in that SA series even before the sand paper was employed was hugely amusing. The complaints about press coverage, aggressive fans and being sledged on the pitch all sound very familiar. Essentially an Australian team were faced with exactly the same behaviours that touring sides faced when visiting Australia and imploded mentally. After years of giving it out, they couldn't take it when given back and it made the rest of the world laugh. Still onwards through this set of videos for me.

Its amazing how you can put a lot of unrelated snippets together to almost legitimise sandpaper gate

However the South African players, fans, broadcasters had behaved on that series. It doesn't justify cheating. You can't handle the pressure then don't play.

Good content really enjoyed it, I do think the interpretation of Warner is very generous at best. Throughout his career he has had constant question marks about his character and yet he seems to almost made out to be the victim.

aaaaaaaah okay I wasn't aware that the South Africans were to blame for sandpapergate...my bad. Sincere apologies to the very sporting and respectable Aussies for causing you behave in a way that was completely understandable under such trying circumstances. For a moment I thought you were just making excuses for Smith and Warner's behavior. Feel terrible for causing such heartache and tears. Laughable! Is this guy for real? Oh I forgot he's an Aussie 😉

I will never accept that this was just a 'one off bad decision' by a few aussie players,no fckin way,and it definitely would of continued had they not been caught red handed.

What a superb content!loved it

I can't understand how bowlers didn't know anything about it...truth needs to come out bowlers definitely knew about it and Aussie have been doing this a long time

Hilarious that the editor / voiceover lists at the end of the video all the reasons why Warner and Smith were feeling the pressure before Cape Town, thereby causing them to go down the sandpaper route! There’s no excusing being Cheats!

Make as many excuses for the behaviour of Smith and Warner as you like. They deserved harsher punishment, especially Warner. No bowler ever admitted any part in it and yet, it would be impossible for them not to know that the ball had been tampered with. The truth still needs to come out. Was this the only time, or was this just the first time they'd been caught?

Mate can you do one on how Germany needed to start both world wars? I’d love to see how you’d spin it to make them the victims

Sandpaper! It’s just Australians being ‘abrasive’, that’s all! 😂😂

Good vid mate. The volume was a bit quiet if you could bump it up for part 2 please. Cheets

The Supersport documentary is a completely different version, and probably more believable. Warner and Smith certainly weren't the victims like this video shows them as.

This is set up to be the best ashes series ever. Hoping we win that urn back!

The Trevor Chappell "underarm" delivery, Lillee kicking Javed Miandad, Lillee throwing his aluminium bat after being told he was not allowed to use it, the sledging to achieve mental disintegration of Steve Waugh's team.......and now this. I'm struggling to think of any other incidents involving the same team so consistently. This all points to a very unhealthy level of unsportsmanlike conduct at the highest level by Australian cricketers.

Great work brother. Love from India. One positive suggestion I will give is speak slightly slower. For a non native speaker it was bit difficult to understand but great video informative overall.

This is obscenely biased. Couldn’t quite believe it. Call it a documentary but can’t be the slight bit impartial.

As an Englishman, i have to say that for some reason the Australian cricket team in most generations just seem so unlikable, there overt aggression, approach to the game and general demeanor, and dont think this is some natural English bias, or jealousy of some kind, we were thrashed for decades by the great West Indian teams, but i still hold the likes of Richards, Garner, and Holding in total awe and admiration of there class, put simply, the Aussie cricket team lacks class

It wasn’t cricket’s biggest ever controversy. It was Australia’s biggest ever cricket controversy. Ask any Saffer what, for them, was cricket’s biggest scandal and the first words out their mouth will be “Hansie Cronje”. Ask Pakistanis and it would be Lord’s 2010. It’s all relative. The sun doesn’t just shine for Aussies, mate. The real controversy is why Hansie was banned for life whereas these cheats were only suspended for a year. And, PUH-LEAZE! - there is no more hostile environment than playing in Australia.

Great explanation and analysis

Exact same offense in Major League Baseball has historically resulted in a 10-game suspension, which for a starting pitcher means that he would miss two starts (out of about 30 starts in a season).

Great video, audio's a bit low though

1. its particularly rich for aussies to call fans from other countries the main villain. 2. davey's comments were harmless and relentless. 3. david had every right to be upset. 4. david is a saint :) LoL. 5. Paine said Australia did not cross the line. The line for an aussie is not the same as a line for a South African. Maybe QDK was going through a mentally tough phase and couldnt train, maybe someone in his family had anorexia, you dont know. how do you know something didnt trigger him? Its not harmless mate. 6. the best person on that cricket team was Usman Khwaja, was in red hot form, was the captain of the state side, but Tim Paine got chosen as the captain.

Adam Goodes wasn't 'racially abused into retirement'. He was 35 and finished as a player.

i am fan of your filmmaking ability thoroughly adored every sec of it.

Narrative behind this is INSANE ngl

Truely a dark time in Korean history.

If Warner, and Smith were English, they would of never have played for England again, same with other countries.

our behaivour got progressively worse from Ricky onwards and was never checked.

Cheating in any professional sport should mean an immediate life ban.

Warner is being "Harrased" but is "Sledging". Nice distinction.

The last country to have a ball tampering scandal only was a big deal because Australia hold these moves to a higher standard every other country hands out fines or one match bans for the same offence

I wish there was download options too.. I wish to watch later

An example needed to be made by banning Smith and Warner from playing test cricket again. Banished to limited overs. With them both in the team today proves its all about the spinning of the turnstyles.

Do a video of the downhill of Sri Lanka cricket please

I think that they should have a test series where virtually anything goes. Same for both sides. The umpires bring out sandpaper, polish, vaseline, tools for picking the seam etc. The captain can choose from that selection at any time, but can still only have a new ball after 85 overs, so, if they pick the wrong method of (legal) ball tampering, they could make the ball worse for bowling with. On a flat, batting-friendly pitch, it could be very interesting.

Which grade of sandpaper do they prefer to use; coarse, medium or fine?

One has to remember that former South African captain was banned for life from all aspects of the game for accepting a few thousand dollars bribe. Many other international captains had done similar deeds. Poor old Hansie wasn’t even allowed to coach a primary school team. Steve Smith is still at it plodding awkwardly along even though he conjured up such a dastardly plan and was caught red handed. Amazing double standards!

Underarm, catches that were grounded, missing Sneddens catch, Aussie has always trod a fine line between playing hard and overstepping. This is simply cheating....

Love how shocked the PM was. I mean, a politician who can not imagine somebody trying to get an unfair advantage.

Poor Team Australia. Baited into cheating.

You should have mentioned the brain fade incident in 2017 india

Do they forget when afridi literally tried to eat the ball 🤦🏼‍♂️

What about the coach? A highly experienced former test player. You try to paint this pre-determined cheating as something else. Your former test player & WW2 fighter pilot Keith Mitchell summed it up perfectly when Michael Clarke whined about 'pressure', Mitchell said pressure is having a ME 109 up your backside. They chose to try to cheat the laws of the game, got caught & should never have been able to play again, end of.

It's highly possible that they did it in the 2017/18 Ashes series. Even if they did, we would have still lost that series and by a huge margin. We were useless.

@fours&sixes You should also do one for Micheal Atherton from 1994, against South Africa. Everyone just goes on about Steve Smith.

Can you talk a bit louder or turn your mic up or something bro?

Old habits die hard , yes the bairstow incident is within the rules but it's a very cheap way of getting a wicket.

You forgot to mention the media coverage on Warner's taping around his whole hand in the second test match and how much he was sctuirinised for being the designated ball shiner.

They was using sandpaper well before they actually got caught.....

all series as smith as captain should be stripped from Australia just like all tour de France were stripped off lance armstrong

Very interesting and important video. But your sound quality/level is very poor.

Why you have so less subs man

You sound sick, take rest

Same old auzzies always cheating 🎶

Sad effort. Not bothering to watch part 2.

So,what does sledging, and sanpaper have anything to do with sport?

They 100% cheated against England in the Ashes before

As an Aussie i have stopped watching the cricket since this happened. I will not watch Warner and Smith, should have been banned for life... Cheating scum.

I have no problem with the punishment given to the 3 Australian players for their roles in sandpaper gate. However I think to be fair, their actions need to be seen in context with what other teams were doing and getting away with previously. Here are but a few that have retreated to the shadows behind the sandpaper gate incident. 1. Mike Atherton (England captain) was caught rubbing 'dirt' he stashed into his pocket into the ball in an attempt to change its condition - result = after initial denials Atherton admitted guilt and received a 2000 pound fine with no suspension. 2. South African captain Faf DuPlessis on 2 occasions was found guilt of attempting to illegally alter the state of the ball using mints (England were guilty of this too in 2005 ashes) to shine / weight the ball, and on another occasion he used the zipper on his pants to scratch the ball up again no suspension fine only. Vernon Philander was fined for scratching the ball with his nails, Shahid Afridi found guilty of biting the ball to change its condition. All these players were found guilty and none received a ban. This just highlights the hypocrisy of the system that was too soft for too long. I wouldn't be surprised if Warner and Smith reckoned the worst they would face was a fine with no suspension. Boy were they wrong. Cricket Australia took a principled stand and said enough is enough - 1 year ban and massive fines. The toothless ICC wouldn't have done any more than they did in the cases listed above. So before people get on their high horses I'd suggest they look in their own back yard for ball tampering incidents that were punished by 50 lashes with a wet lettuce leaf.

Smith and Warner should have been banned for life.... It's a disgrace that they are still playing.

Just remember. It was a one off. The bowlers didn't know anything about it. They had never even thought of doing it before.

You won plenty of ashes series on the 2000s? You did win more than us, but the 2000s was when your dominance of the Ashes ended.

That’s not how you spell “experience” …. ! Is there anything or anyone else you can attempt to blame? They cheated …. End of story! Absolutely disgusting behaviour & totally unacceptable by ANY measure!

your voice grates.......

This has to be first time I have heard anyone compare South African fans to Australians.

The greatest wrong was that they got to play again shamefully.

oh dear my goodness its test cricket

The cause, not really any cause to use sandpaper. Nice try though.

The issue I have with this is it typically plays it as a weight on us and we finally made a mistake rather than a culture which had been going on for a while and stories of cheating in England and other series leading up to SA… I have no doubt that Smith was not the instigator of the issues but just happened to be the captain at the time and maybe not strong enough to stop the behaviour by Warner and some others

Hashim Amla also had a word class beard.

I agree the s3ason before the ball was swinging around everywhere, and one of the bowlers, when interviewed said the English needs to learn how to play the swinging ball. Also if your a bowler you don't know the balls being Interfed with. around

This is pretty easy to sum up - The coulture of both OZ and India that win at all costs no matter what you did is very damaging Kohli of india is the epitomy of this. A massive failure in the cricket board of the country to instill Fail play and the spirt of ceicket values in players from club level on up. Next step was the selction of players that whilst very talented have no bussiness play international test cricket due to attitude Steve Smith is the example of this. The final step in the failing of OZ cricket baord was not to ban all 3 players involved from playing for OZ at international level for life. Any test match or other international that any of these cheats plays in should have an * attached as the result can never be fully trusted.

What’s up with the audio, skipped

I still reckon it's goes further than the three blokes who took the fall

I'm spruced they thought they could get away with it at least Eng in 2005 ashes played it smart with the sticky mints on the ball and nobody noticed and they goit away with it until years later when a couple og England players fessed up to the cheating

9:02 I freaking knew it. Something came from above.

This does a good job of showing the difference between playing for Australia and playing for other countries. This is something many casual viewers of Cricket don’t understand with reference to the recent events in the Ashes. Cricket is a contained sport in countries like England; the vast majority of the public are largely uninterested. It isn’t like Football, where everyone knows most top players, and the pressure is enormous. Cricket has a fanbase, but it’s very much a secondary sport, possibly not even that. Many of our fans who enjoy Cricket find ‘win at all costs’ to be unpalatable; it feels ugly and unnecessary to us, myself included. It’s Cricket, it’s good to watch, but winning isn’t the be-all and end-all. Losing is okay, we generally want to play well and enjoy it, but we don’t want to see arrogance and we struggle with seeing it as important enough to be cutthroat/cheat etc. A good example comes in the form of KP, he was an amazing player, but even an ounce of personality somehow made the English media, Cricket community, and even the England team, uncomfortable and he didn’t have the career he could have. Imagine if he was Australian, he would have been loved for his arrogance, given the chance to flourish, and he would have likely fit right in.

What a load of crap. They cheated because they are cheats. There’s no excuse for it

This is a spoof documentary right? You’ve seen This is Spinal Tap?

So Australia can give it, but they cant take it. Is that the message im getting here?

Aren’t we over this already!

Dont worry guys reported for misinformation

Stop making excuses for cheating. Every team faces constant sledging from Australian players whenever they play them. Our players give some back and the Ausies cry, perfect cry babies

South Africa vs England big cricket rivalry but something we do have one thing in the common both hate Australia

So South Africa is to blame for Australia cheating? 😂😂😂😂

Other members got away with it and Roxy made a dollar from sandpaper

The chop narating this is probably Warner's wife and Sonny Bill in the loo with a stolen cellphone

This Aussie team just keep giving 😂

Those crocodile tears of Steve Smith is just the best... cheater