Former Test captain Michael Clarke has accused Cricket Australia of frequently making David Warner the scapegoat of the ball-tampering saga after the most recent mess surrounding his management ban.
Warner entered Thursday’s Test towards West Indies with a large cloud hanging over his head, after withdrawing the appliance to have his management ban lifted in anger over the method.
The opener’s fury is as a result of unbiased panel wanting an open listening to into the matter, in what he claimed would have been a public trial of the Cape Town Test.
He stated the method would have been detrimental to each the group and his household.
CA backed Warner’s push for the assessment of his ban to be held behind closed doorways, however each had been denied by the unbiased panel who set the parameters.
Warner’s ban stays the one lingering sanction from the saga, which will probably be 5 years previous in March.
That is finest exemplified by the actual fact Warner’s public fury got here on the identical day Steve Smith was returned to the captaincy in a stand-in function for the injured Pat Cummins.
“I don’t know if it’s fair to make David Warner the complete scapegoat and say right, everyone else can go back to normal,” Clarke stated on Sky Sports Radio.
“We’ll forgive you but we won’t forgive Davey. I’m still unsure if any of them should be involved in a leadership role.
“I feel it is a robust one for Davey to swallow, guidelines in place for him and never for the others.”
Clarke said he still believed the punishments handed down out of the ball-tampering saga were unfair against Warner, who was not captain at the time.
“I see it as very inconsistent,” Clarke stated.
“I discover it very arduous to imagine it is okay for one however not okay for the opposite to have a management function.
“If Cricket Australia decided that all the guys involved in South Africa, none would play a leadership role, that’s a fair call.
“But if it is okay for Smithy, then it must be okay for Bancroft and Warner.
“This is the last thing cricket needed.”
Warner additionally gained the assist of Ian Healy, who claimed he had “saved” the group from the drama.
“He has saved cricket here,” Healy stated on SEN.
“That panel was going to air cricket’s problems. Why?
“Why would they try this when each different side of their negotiations with the Australian Cricketers’ Association, for instance, are endeavouring to remain behind closed doorways.”
Former Test teammate Stephen O’Keefe accused officials of going on a “witch-hunt” by wanting to pore over the details of Cape Town again.
“Why undergo all that garbage? The ban on all three was approach too harsh to start with,” O’Keefe stated.
“We need to be celebrating this group in the intervening time and never going after these witch-hunts.
“We all know what happened, We’ve all moved on from it. Just change your decision and let him captain Australia.”
