David Warner has expressed his displeasure with Cricket Australia for taking so long to allow him to apply to have his lifetime leadership ban reviewed. He described the process as traumatic and disappointing. CA announced on Monday that it had amended its code of conduct, which previously stated that players had no right to have a sanction reviewed once it had been accepted.
Warner was unable to captain Australia after receiving a lifetime ban as a result of the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, with the sanction falling under the previous code of conduct. Warner expressed his displeasure at a Kayo Sports promotion event on Monday.
“I’m not a criminal. You should get a right of an appeal at some stage. I understand that they put a ban in place but banning someone for life, I think it’s a bit harsh. Where it’s been disappointing, it’s taken this long to get to where it has. It was brought up in I think February this year. So it’s been drawn out. It’s traumatic for me and my family and everyone else that was involved in it. We haven’t needed to go back into that detail. We don’t need to relive what happened,” Warner said.
It’s a tad disappointing: David Warner
Warner was particularly irritated by how he was portrayed in this process, which occurred at a time when Australia was undergoing a leadership transition in limited-overs cricket. Aaron Finch announced his retirement from the One-Day International team in September. In October, Pat Cummins was named ODI captain.
