David Warner Can Absolutely Make it Back to the Australian Team - James Sutherland

Cricket Australia CEO, James Sutherland believes David Warner can make a comeback into the Australian national team.

The former Australian deputy was banned for a period of one-year for his role in the Ball-Tampering scandal.

As per CA’s findings, Warner played a major role in the planning of altering the condition of the ball. Furthermore, it is anticipated that it is going to be a steep road ahead for the southpaw batsman to make his way back into the Australian team.

The opening batsman had himself accepted the fact that he may never play for Australia again.

Everyone Deserves their chance.

James Sutherland said while talking to Gerard Whateley on Melbourne Radio Station SEN that all the three banned players deserve their chance.

“Absolutely, I think everyone deserves their chance, and their own personal redemption story is very much in their own hands now. Each of them has to go about that during the time they’re out of the game. They need to prove that their worthy (and) prove to the Australian selectors that they should want them back. They deserve that opportunity,” CA CEO said.

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Adding further, Sutherland feels sorry for the banned trio of Australian players. Meanwhile, many cricket pundits believed Cricket Australia was too harsh with their punishments.

“I feel for all three players. I feel forgiveness, as well as sympathy for them. We want to see them all comeback and play their best cricket. I believe they all can,” Sutherland said.

David Warner always wanted to improve as a player.

Sutherland added the combative batsman always wanted to improve both as a player as well as the leader of the side. Warner had also led Australia to T20I series win against England and New Zealand before the South African tour.

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“David was very focused on being a better cricketer, being a better leader, being a better person and he worked very hard on those things. There were certainly good signals in that regard. You’ve only got to go to the end of our season in Australia before the team went to South Africa where he captained the team (in) a successful tri-series T20 competition to victory. All of the reports were that he led the team with aplomb. His leadership in all that was outstanding,” 52-year Sutherland added.

Sutherland further added it doesn’t make any sense to look in hindsight and say giving Warner a leadership role was a mistake.

“On one hand, it’s easy to look back in hindsight and say all those kinds of things, but there were a lot of good positive signals around him in terms of how he was responding as a leader,” he added.

David Warner, Steven Smith, and Cameron Bancroft are facing the repercussions of their actions. These three players will have to stay strong during this challenging period, and hopefully, they can make a stronger comeback.

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