{"id":12257,"date":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/darren-lehmann-breaks-his-silence-over-ball-tampering-scandal\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","slug":"darren-lehmann-breaks-his-silence-over-ball-tampering-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/darren-lehmann-breaks-his-silence-over-ball-tampering-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Lehmann Breaks His Silence Over Ball Tampering Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Aussie coach Darren Lehmann has at last spoken about the ball tampering scandal &#8212; apologising for the delay and saying the players involved lied to him.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1083\" width=\"772\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lehmann-sorry.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThey said it was tape and then it was sandpaper,\u201d Boof said earlier this morning.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt is hard to describe to be perfectly honest. Disappointed, embarrassed, hurt for the game. I worry about the three guys immensely.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThey are hurting. I feel for them and their families, I hope that in all this the media and the fans don\u2019t forget that.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThere is a human side to this. They have made a mistake, as everyone &#8212; including myself &#8212; has made mistakes in the past. These are young men and I hope people will give them a second chance.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cTheir health and wellbeing is extremely important to us. They have made a grave mistake, but they are not bad people. As a coach, you feel for them as people.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe team has been received quite negatively in recent times and there is a need for us to change some of the philosophies about the way we play<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cAs a past player, a coach and a lover of the game, I am really sorry for what has happened. From this point forward we need to work to earn the respect back from all our fans.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Smith and David Warner have been banned for 12 months while Cameron Bancroft has been banned for nine months over a plot to tamper with the ball during a test match in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Darren Lehmann issued an emotional apology in his first opportunity to speak to the media since the start of the ball tampering scandal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xg1jlpbeo1\">pic.twitter.com\/xg1jlpbeo1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricketAus\/status\/979071547754319872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie coach Darren Lehmann has at last spoken about the ball tampering scandal &#8212; apologising for the delay and saying the players involved lied to him. \u201cThey said it was tape and then it was sandpaper,\u201d Boof said earlier this morning. \u201cIt is hard to describe to be perfectly honest. Disappointed, embarrassed, hurt for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Darren Lehmann Breaks His Silence Over Ball Tampering Scandal - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/darren-lehmann-breaks-his-silence-over-ball-tampering-scandal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Darren Lehmann Breaks His Silence Over Ball Tampering Scandal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Aussie coach Darren Lehmann has at last spoken about the ball tampering scandal &#8212; apologising for the delay and saying the players involved lied to him. \u201cThey said it was tape and then it was sandpaper,\u201d Boof said earlier this morning. \u201cIt is hard to describe to be perfectly honest. 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