This is not the place for it; but people on the low end of the autism spectrum disorder (Aspergers) can have excellent motor skills and concentration. It is largely a social disorder with some compulsive tendencies.
Bradman only played in 3 away Test losses in his career. That's pretty remarkable.
Hmmm, it may support cheating, or it may even advocate cheating if you want to take it that far...but it isn't cheating. Steve Smith is not a cheat. He would never have dreamed of conducting anything like that, he loves the game far too much. He was simply not strong enough as a captain. Others have said it, and I agree, that the hyper-aggressive Australian way of playing cricket - perpetuated under Lehmann - paved the way for what happened. And Steve Smith partly suffered from that (he didn't create that culture) and also failed to be brave enough in his role to put a stop to it. I don't think for a second he said 'yeah, let's do this - let's openly cheat and bugger the consequences'. I would imagine he probably wrestled with it in his own mind and didn't have the stones to say no, this is crap. Obviously the hostile environment in SA and the fact they were losing played their part as well. It was an error I think most of us could have made, even the most honourable of us. And yeah, anything more than a one series ban was excessive, although losing the captaincy was fair enough.
Impossible to know whether he didn't think they were being serious or just didn't want to know about any funny business going on.
He was happy enough to let Warner add things to the strapping on his hands to "accelerate the deterioration" though, as noted in Alastair Cook's new book.
Yeah that's consistent with what I've heard too. It seems like he sort of let Warner do whatever he liked, rather than being an actual captain and imposing some basic standards on his fellow senior players.
Right, that's why leaders are supposed to not leave any room for such ambiguity.
That’s basically what I understood from my close sources
I'm humoured about the amount of bloody coverage this crap has gathered, for so many reasons.
It wasnt in the dressing room tbf, he was mocking leach when they were celebrating on the ground.
Even more so in that it was a reaction to Leach doing something similar (though less dickheadishly) the previous game
