Opinion: Warner outrage exposes cricket’s latest leadership failure | malcolmconn
Forget the details. David Warner’s angry decision to drop the application over his lifetime leadership ban is yet another failure by Cricket Australia to make difficult decisions in a timely manner.On the eve of one of the season’s highlights, the day-night Test in Adelaide, Warner felt so disillusioned by a nine-month process that he took the nuclear option and made his frustration public on Wednesday.
This is what happens when Cricket Australia outsources leadership. When it hands over the responsibility of its players and its processes to legal eagles more interested in a sub-clause than the good of the game. Instead, the legal mess that has followed brought us to this point. If the board could hand out bans like speeding tickets, then they should have been able to withdraw them in appreciation of Warner’s faultless behaviour over almost five years.On the one hand, Cricket Australia have put their collective arm around Warner and pulled together an unprecedented deal to have him play in the Big Bash despite a hectic international schedule.
Smith wanted to play as a replacement player for the Sydney Sixers when a one-day series against New Zealand was cancelled last January, for the minimum $2000 a game.
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