There is no sympathy back home for the Australian cricket team. This is how the country's media has reacted to the cheating scandal.

:: NT NEWS

OH DEAR ... TOMORROW’S FRONT PAGE pic.twitter.com/gnudHxk8zs — The NT News (@TheNTNews) March 25, 2018

Darwin's morning tabloid goes for a humorous headline - alongside a picture of ball-tamperer-in-chief Cameron Bancroft trying to hide a small piece of yellow tape down the front of his trousers.

Heads are expected to roll, it says, on what has become "cricket's darkest day".

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:: THE COURIER MAIL

The Brisbane tabloid turns its focus to Cricket Australia with the blunt but catchy headline: "Show some balls".

It says shocked fans are calling for captain Steve Smith and senior batsman and leading sledger David Warner to be given the axe "for real".

:: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

What you'll find in the Monday edition of The @DailyTelegraph https://t.co/KPb2O32DAS pic.twitter.com/4O7WImu6Ig — The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) March 25, 2018

A one-word headline leads the front of the paper: "Shame" under a picture of the "sacred" baggy green cap, suggesting the players' actions have brought the "symbol of national pride and fair play into disrepute".

On the inside pages, the incident is referred to as "Sandpapergate".

Commentator Ian Chappell says Smith should not be the sole scapegoat for a "dark day in Australia cricket", while Robert Craddock says the scandal is the "culmination of a grubby win-at-all-costs culture finally crossing from self righteous rule-bending into a world of shameless, bald-face cheating".

:: SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Here's today's front page of the Herald https://t.co/eEH8m1plEu pic.twitter.com/d9FdIWCdUx — The Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) March 25, 2018

"Shame" reads the headline in the New South Wales paper. "'Same old Aussies, always cheating', goes the Barmy Army chant, and it's impossible to be offended now," writes Malcolm Knox.

The commentator says this is cricket's "#MeToo moment" and gives cricket the opportunity to "cleanse itself".

"The first people Australian cricket should be hearing from are Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor - 20 years' worth of captains - and their pace-bowling eminences...From this group, we want the truth. Is this what Australian cricket is, and has been, about?," he asks.

:: HERALD SUN

Image: The Herald Sun called for the entire team to be sacked

"Sack them all", says the paper's headline as it calls for Smith's suspension from the fourth and final Test, starting on Friday, to go one step further and see him fired "for good", as well as any other players who knew of the plan to "cheat".

Writer Robert Craddock says Smith's reputation "will never recover" from the Baggy Green cheating scandal.