Cricket Australia (CA) has made damning revelations about the ball-tampering scandal that has left the entire cricketing world shaken.
The Australian cricket board, in their key findings, made it amply clear that former vice-captain David Warner was the mastermind behind hatching the entire plot. While captain Steve Smith was found to have knowledge of the plan and not preventing it, encouraging Cameron Bancroft to conceal it and “seeking to mislead match officials”, Warner was held responsible for the “development of a plan to attempt to artificially alter the condition of the ball”.
The investigation found Warner not only conceived the idea to rough up the ball with sandpaper but he also enlisted Bancroft to carry out the task and demonstrated how to do it.
Warner and Smith were both banned for a year from all international and domestic cricket while Bancroft was handed a nine-month ban for executing the plan to tamper with the ball.
However, the CA said Warner will never be considered for leading the side.
