Liam Davis

@ThorpeAsh @PVSportAcademy @BurnmoorCricket @jpmangan251 maybe a drill you could introduce at Wembley this year. @mattjohnston23

Sometimes coaching is worth it. A young fella at @PVSportAcademy bowled off the wrong foot. After some drills and walkthroughs this was the result! Still work to do but much improved, well done Fozzy! @BurnmoorCricket

My piece on how cricket administrators have allowed ball tampering for generations espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/229…

Players had 2 presentations a year by Cricket Australia on match fixing highlighting 2 year ban. Ball tampering issue was skipped over mentioning 1 game ban. If CA were going to be so harsh, they should have let players know beforehand. If so, none of this would have happened.

@sb_tang The problem with the ex players that have been so "shocked" and "disappointed" is that they to crossed the line and have blood on their hands. Smith may have gone deeper past the line but the standard had been set and engrained.

@liam_davis Thanks. I take it you have a slightly different view? Namely, that there's no difference between a minty and some tape? After all, they're both prohibited "artificial substances" under the rules.

So much hype about ball tampering. Not sure there is a professional cricket team in the world that doesnt do it one way or another. Too many ex players/mentors with short memories taking the high ground and hanging current players out to dry. Really feel for Bancroft and Smith.

@sb_tang We had 2 CA presentations a year on match fixing but not 1 in my 10 years on ball tampering. Many knew what was going on but nothing was ever said as it was generally accepted. Now Smith will be made the scapegoat.

@sb_tang It is much more frowned upon to use sandpaper but its all still ball tampering under the laws of the game. All teams have been crossing the line for years.

@sb_tang This has been the attitude exactly. Its ok to cheat a little but its not ok to cheat alot. Its ok to turn the ball into a minty but not ok to rough one side with some hand tape. Tit for tat.

@liam_davis Thoughts on this piece in The Age from an ex-Australian-first-class cricketer saying that there's a big difference between "ball management" tampering and planning to bring a foreign object onto the field? theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…

@jbfwoodroof Agree that. They are pathetic sometimes. There was a documentary over here on how to tell your kids the Australian cricket team were cheats. Marcus Trescothick was a hero in the ashes for the same offence. Not saying it right. Just that this group isnt the first. Hope your well!

@xboxfoster Not sandpaper no. How are ya mate? Hope you and the fam are well!

@liam_davis Come on big man! You ever been remotely close to doing what they did?

@FreoPope @fawcett29 Problem with that is that the ball wouldnt move off the straight and we would have ultra boring tests like the MCG this summer. The contest between bat and ball is what makes test cricket the pinnacle. A level of ball tampering should be allowed. No sandpaper though.

@liam_davis @fawcett29 Do you reckon they could ever trial a complete ban on shining the ball? Maybe give you a new one every 60 overs instead. Just let it degrade naturally if everyone is cheating

@sb_tang @BoredTweeter55 Im saying some of the public anger you speak of has been created by these ex players who have chosen the moral high ground instead of speaking the truth, helping the public understand that it does go on and calm the mood.

@liam_davis @BoredTweeter55 If I understand you correctly, you're saying that plenty of NSW Australian Test cricketers in the past have ball-tampered and just not gotten caught?

@sb_tang @BoredTweeter55 Sorry i wasnt refering to SA and Eng. These guys are a product of yesterdays players. The exact same ex NSW and Aust players that have been very critical. The public does not understand that it is normal. It would be nice if afew high profile players put their hand up.

@BoredTweeter55 @liam_davis But convicted and confessed ball tamperers from other nations -- I'm looking at you England and South Africa -- have no right whatsoever to be casting stones. What next? Lessons on democracy from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

@backofhouse @rubismardi

Something tells me this wasn’t a planned #StPatricksDay event in Scarborough

@johnt237 @wesrobbo22 @maxyklinger @westaustralian @ScorchersBBL @SACAnews @GrahamManou All part of being an all rounder. Miss out with the bat ---> contribute with the ball. What were our second spinner @Healsy13 figures that day?

@johnt237 @wesrobbo22 @maxyklinger @westaustralian @ScorchersBBL @SACAnews @GrahamManou All part of being an opener. Sometimes you just get a good one early.

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@T_Bird81 #padrash

I wish we would double declare every Saturday at 10am.