OPINION The question we need answered before David Warner can captain again
Senior players expected the Cricket Australia board to emerge from a meeting last Friday to announce that David Warner’s lifetime captaincy ban had been overturned.
If only CA had taken as much time to consider things when it slapped Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft with heavy suspensions following the Newlands sandpaper scandal in March 2018.It took a grand total of four days for then CA head of integrity Iain Roy to run an investigation from his hotel room before the board banned Warner and Smith from playing for a year and Bancroft nine months.
Despite this, it appears a matter of “when” not “if” Warner will captain his country again; most likely in the 50-over format later this summer and then next year’s World Cup in India.
On one side, there’s a firm view that lifetime bans in any sport are too much. Lifetime bans are reserved for the likes of Lance Armstrong and Hansie Cronje . Even if you’re standing at cover with a Ryobi orbital sander in your pocket, ball manipulation isn’t in the same ballpark.On the other side, there’s an absolute view that Warner and co. did irreparable harm to the good name of Australian cricket.
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