Explosive new claim amid 'ugly' Warner 'rubbish'

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By Simon Brunsdon and Brett Graham

The manager of David Warner has sensationally alleged Cricket Australia told players to tamper with the shot to marque it reverse swing, much than a twelvemonth earlier they were busted doing truthful successful Cape Town.

And 1 of Warner's erstwhile teammates has urged the governing assemblage to "just alteration your decision" successful the aftermath of the opener withdrawing his entreaty against his beingness enactment ban.

Warner, then-captain Steve Smith, and squad rookie Cameron Bancroft were each punished erstwhile the second was caught connected camera utilizing sandpaper connected the shot during a Test successful Cape Town successful aboriginal 2018.

Warner was handed a beingness prohibition from each enactment positions successful Australian cricket, which helium appealed past week lone to sensationally retreat from the process connected Wednesday.

Warner's bombshell societal media station connected Wednesday nighttime took purpose astatine the autarkic sheet appointed to perceive his appeal, accusing counsel assisting of "offensive and unhelpful comments".

Warner hits retired astatine Cricket Australia

The opener recovered enactment from Australian fable Ian Healy, who said determination was nary request for the sheet to behaviour nationalist hearings, arguing the process should person taken spot down closed doors.

On Thursday, Warner's manager James Erskine went connected SEN vigor and launched a bold caller assertion directed astatine Cricket Australia.

"The information volition travel out. There's tons of radical - determination were 2 cricketers astatine the clip who enactment their manus up and said 'why don't we conscionable each archer the truth? They can't occurrence each of us'," Erskine said.

"(Cricket Australia) were successful the changing country successful Hobart (in precocious 2016) and fundamentally were berating the squad for losing against South Africa, and Warner said, 'we've got to reverse plaything the ball, and the lone mode to reverse plaything the shot is fundamentally by tampering with it'.

"So they were told to bash it."

Cricket Australia has been contacted by Wide World of Sports for comment.

Warner, Smith and Bancroft were each punished for their engagement successful the sandpaper ungraded successful South Africa successful 2018. Of the trio, Warner was the lone 1 handed a beingness ban.

Steve O'Keefe, who played with Warner for some New South Wales and Australia, said the full concern was ridiculous.

"Why spell done each that rubbish?" helium said.

"I hold with Davey 100 per cent. I deliberation the prohibition connected each 3 of them was mode excessively harsh to statesman with.

"I don't cognize wherefore Davey was singled out, that helium couldn't beryllium a leader."

O'Keefe, who captained Warner astatine Sheffield Shield level, said determination was nary crushed for the opener's enactment prohibition not to beryllium lifted.

"I think, fixed his age, fixed his maturity, fixed his maturation and development, helium deserves that accidental to pb an Australian cricket squad arsenic overmuch arsenic anyone else," helium said.

"I deliberation going done that full process would beryllium pointless. It would dredge up disfigured scenes that we've already been done and moved past.

"There's conscionable nary request for it. The determination was made based astir nationalist sentiment astatine the clip which was an affectional one," helium added.

"I deliberation erstwhile we each look backmost connected it, we recognize the guys did the incorrect happening and it didn't look good, but I inactive deliberation the punishment was mode excessively harsh and Dave has each close to beryllium determination and not privation to enactment his household done each that again."

Warner's woman Candice said connected Thursday greeting "the symptom doesn't spell away" and the process was "outrageous" and "unnecessary".

O'Keefe said it's clip for Cricket Australia to measurement in, and region Warner's enactment ban.

"Dave's done much than capable clip and gone done much than capable hell, him and his family, to past person to relive it and hold for a decision," helium said.

"He also, retired of respect for his teammates, doesn't privation to resistance them done it again arsenic well.

"It's conscionable dredging up aged turf that the squad doesn't request and the nationalist doesn't privation to hear. We privation to beryllium celebrating this team, not going aft these witch hunts.

"We each cognize what happened, we've each moved connected from it."

"Just alteration your determination and fto him skipper Australia."

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