David Warner and Steve Smith ball-tampering bans stand, Cricket Australia says

  • Players’ union submission to overturn bans dismissed
  • Cameron Bancroft’s nine-month sanction also upheld

A definitive line in the sand has been drawn under the ball tampering scandal after Cricket Australia dismissed a submission by the players’ union which asked for amendments to the bans handed to Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft.

CA directors discussed the options available to them on Monday, following calls from the Australian Cricketers’ Association to immediately lift the sanctions. Despite the union’s claims the trio had “already been punished enough”, the board of directors unanimously decided the bans were fair, and saw no reason to alter them.

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