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Warner's captaincy ban overturned by Cricket Australia
Warner's captaincy ban overturned by Cricket Australia
The 37-year old is eligible to lead Sydney Thunder in the upcoming edition of the Big Bash League
David Warner's lifetime captaincy ban has been overturned after six-and-a-half years following a review by Cricket Australia's Conduct Commission. It means he is now eligible to captain Sydney Thunder in the upcoming BBL having not been allowed to lead any team in Australia after the ban was imposed following the sandpaper incident in Cape Town in 2018.
CA released the findings from the independent Conduct Commission review on Friday with the three-person panel unanimously deciding that Warner had met the necessary criteria to have ban lifted following changes to the code of conduct in 2022.
Warner is now firmly in the conversation to be the Thunder captain for the BBL where he will be available for an entire season for the first time.
Warner had previously angrily withdrawn from the an attempt to have his ban overturned in 2022. Copeland termed that process a "train wreck" and said that part of the latest outcome being a success had been keeping the process out of the spotlight until the verdict was delivered.
It had long been a source of frustration for Warner that he had been banned from leading any team in Australia while Steven Smith, who was the captain in the Cape Town Test and was also banned from playing for a year for his involvement in the scandal, has since returned to captain both the Australian Test and ODI team and remains the current Test vice-captain.
Warner had been allowed to captain teams around the world since his playing ban, having led Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Delhi Capitals (DC) in the IPL. He had also hoped to get the chance to captain Australia's T20 side late in his international career, before retiring from all formats following the T20 World Cup in June.
CA chief executive Nick Hockley said he was pleased Warner's ban had been overturned.
Format | Matches | Runs | Highest | 100s | 50s |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 112 | 8786 | 335* | 26 | 37 |
ODIs | 161 | 6932 | 179 | 22 | 33 |
T20Is | 110 | 3277 | 100* | 1 | 28 |
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