11-21-2022, 04:00 AM
Cricket Australia has decided to change the code of conduct rules to allow David Warner to captain Australia and its probably aimed at retaining him in the short format arena where he is relied upon heavily. He has made noises about ditching test cricket and also looking at the big paying overseas short format tournaments and obviously the faltering Big Bash league want to retain him and have him captain Sydney Thunder.
A mistake IMHO to pander to this bloke who did the wrong thing, embarrassed the country, bullied the weak Smith and threw a young player in Bancroft under the bus. You have to have standards and while we know other teams have their cheats it doesnt mean we have to ignore this stuff on the basis everyone else cheats so why dont we.
We want hard tough cricketers but not cheats, what other countries do is their business and if they want to cheat then let them but we need to make it clear to young cricketers that Aus cricket isnt played that way and players who break the rules dont get allowed to captain their country...
A mistake IMHO to pander to this bloke who did the wrong thing, embarrassed the country, bullied the weak Smith and threw a young player in Bancroft under the bus. You have to have standards and while we know other teams have their cheats it doesnt mean we have to ignore this stuff on the basis everyone else cheats so why dont we.
We want hard tough cricketers but not cheats, what other countries do is their business and if they want to cheat then let them but we need to make it clear to young cricketers that Aus cricket isnt played that way and players who break the rules dont get allowed to captain their country...