Former Australian skipper Steve Smith is serving a 12-month ban alongside star player David Warner for their involvement in a ball-tampering scandal against Proteas.
The ball-tampering incident happened in March, this year, and the two star players still have four months to go before they can play for Australia again.
However, Pat Cummins has stated that Smith was hopeful of the ban being lifted.
According to a report, Cummins said, “I think he’s pretty disappointed. I think he was hopeful of that getting lifted. But to be honest I think he’s just over it.”
“He wants to play some cricket. There’s some good T20 competitions around the world coming up that hopefully he’ll go and play. I think he’s sick of all the talk,” said Cummins on all the speculations surrounding Smith.
“He said he’s in a really good place. He’s happy, he’s playing – obviously he’d love to be playing the Tests and everything else coming up. But he’s just ready to get over it,” concluded Cummins.
