Warner slams Aussie board on review of ban

David Warner has welcomed the chance to apply to overturn his life ban from leadership roles in Australia’s teams but he also criticised the country’s cricket board for taking time to set up the process.

Warner was banned from the elite game for a year and from leadership positions for life in 2018 after he was adjudged to have played the leading role in the Newlands ball-tampering scandal.

The former Test vice-captain can now request a review of the leadership ban after Cricket Australia (CA) approved changes to its integrity code.

The changes confirmed yesterday come nine months after the Australian players’ union wrote to CA in February urging Warner’s ban be reconsidered.