'I walked around South Africa asking for sandpaper' - Grace Harris takes cheeky dig at sandpaper scandal

Australian women’s cricketer, Grace Harris, recently took a playful dig at her male compatriots Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft. Harris discussed her habit of naming her bats after burgers. She explained how she had to stop marking her bats because ICC regulations prohibit players from writing on their equipment.

Harris also recalled a funny episode from the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) where she hit a six with a broken bat. The broken bat incident, much like her sandpaper joke, went viral.

"Well, I actually didn't really think it was broken. When it snapped, I was like well, second-best bat, Zingy Stacker. So, Zingy Stacker rolled on out. I named all my bats after burgers because they are all stickered the same. Some people number them whatever, I was like, nah, stuff it, I like burgers. So, I named mine after burgers and McCrispy broke," Harris told on The Grade Cricketer podcast.

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The infamous 2018 ball-tampering incident took place during Australia’s Test series in South Africa. Bancroft was caught attempting to alter the condition of the ball using sandpaper, a tactic that sparked outrage across the world. Smith and Warner, the captain and vice-captain at the time, were heavily implicated in the scandal, resulting in severe suspensions for all three players. Given this, Harris’s joke about sandpaper, while discussing a lighter topic.

"It's written just where the hyper stickers are, it's written just on the top of the handle. I have to stop doing that because throughout the ICC World Cup, they said, you can't have writing on your bat. So I walked around South Africa asking for sandpaper, which as an Australian obviously (laughs)," Harris added.