Warmer and smith out for 12, page-391

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    Boo hoo hoo!! The full court press is underway!! Knighthoods for these poor, poor, poor players!!
    From the sledging tough-guys of international cricket to the snivelling cry-babies of international cricket....new sponsor is Kleenex!!
    Was it dastardly SA fans or dastardly English newspapers what done it? Australia imploded of their own accord....mental fragility exposed!!   

    https://www.msn.com/en-au/sport/cri...reconsidered/ar-AAvosLE?li=AAgg0Zv&ocid=ientp

    The Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) will ask Cricket Australia to reconsider the sanctions given to Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft.
    Smith and Warner received 12-month bans while Bancroft received a nine-month ban over the ball-tampering incident in Cape Town.
    The ACA's Greg Dyer said any decision on appealing against the sanctions would be a personal matter for each player.
    Mr Dyer said the penalties were "disproportionate" and the contrition expressed by the players has been "so extraordinary".
    "Their distressed faces has sent a message across the globe as effective as any sanctions could be," he said.

    "I think Australia cried with Steve Smith last Thursday, I certainly did.
    "We expect this contrition to be taken into account by ACA as any other process."

    He also said the players had been "rushed to a press conference minutes after leaving the field" and that the pressure they were under, while not an excuse, was "relevant".
    Mr Dyer also addressed the questions around the "win-at-all-costs" culture within Australian cricket.
    "Organisational culture comes from its leadership and it comes from the top. It cannot be grafted onto the bottom," he said.
 
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