It’s just not cricket. But ball-tampering is what you’d expect in today’s world | Simon Jenkins

If we cannot trust each other in sport, we can hardly put our faith in an election result – or a president

So sportsmen cheat. Big deal. Sometimes they get caught. Bad luck. Sometimes they cheat blatantly and are accused of “stupidity”. Australians used to pride themselves on the belligerence of their cricketers, as against the genteel northern hemisphere’s “sportsmanship”. What seems to have hurt most in the latest ball-tampering scandal is not the tampering but the idiocy. From booing terrac...