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Originally posted by telamelo ↑

'The truth, The full story': Clarke condemns CA's lack of clarity

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...mns-ca-s-lack-of-clarity-20180328-p4z6lj.html

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England great Bob Willis found it unfathomable that Lehmann had kept his job.

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In my opinion it was unfathomable that Bob Willis kept his job back in 1977:

In the series opener, in Delhi, John Lever, a fast-medium swing bowler from Essex, had taken 7 for 46 and 3 for 24 (aided by "a rogue ball which swung extravagantly") on his Test debut, as England won by an innings, marking him out as the man to watch.

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"Bernard [Thomas, the England physio] didn't have any Vaseline; he only had Vaseline-impregnated gauze. He stuck these to JK [Lever's] and Willis' foreheads

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http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/594464.html

In a 2007 pre-season friendly, Kent captain Rob Key sandpapered one side of the ball to help his bowlers practise reverse swing. He admitted he had been "naïve

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Adam Parore openly admitted that New Zealand, in retribution for what they thought Pakistan had been doing, went to work on the ball with a bottle top in a Test in 1990 in Faisalabad

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