Border urges CA to lift Warner captaincy ban, says ball tampering is good for cricket
Warner was serving as the vice-captain of the Australia Test team at the time. He was banned from the leadership of the Australian team for lifetime because of the ball-tampering scandal.
Khan Mutasim Billah LifeEditor
Posted - 2022-07-25T18:54:44+06:00
Updated - 2022-07-25T18:54:44+06:00
David Warner was banned from domestic and international cricket for a year along with Australia's then captain Steve Smith and batsman Cameron Bancroft for ball-tampering in the 2018 Test against South Africa in Cape Town.
Warner was serving as the vice-captain of the Australia Test team at the time. He was banned from the leadership of the Australian team for lifetime because of the ball-tampering scandal. But former Aussie captain Allan Border thinks such punishment is more according to the crime. The legend urged Cricket Australia (CA) to lift Warner's captaincy ban.
“It was a harsh penalty in the first place… let’s get on with it; they’ve served their time. I know that every other side’s doing exactly what we were caught doing. (If) all the captains put their hands on their hearts and say, ‘I wasn’t doing anything similar, they’d be telling ‘porky pies’ (lies). The bans those boys copped were a bit over the top for the crime, given the knowledge around the cricket fraternity where this has been going on,” Border told The West Australian on Monday.
Besides, Border is unwilling to see ball tampering as a crime. According to him, changing the shape of the ball over a period of time is better for cricket. Otherwise, the batters will just keep scoring runs. “If you get the ball in your hand… just scratching the ball and working on it over a period of time, and you get the ball reverse swinging… what’s wrong with that? It’s not a bad idea because, on flat wickets, you need something. Otherwise, the scores are just going to blow out, and that’s what happens now when we start preparing result wickets because it’s very hard to get good players out on very flat tracks,” Border added.