Cricket Australia to consider reduction of bans against the tainted Australian trio

In the month of March this year the Australian cricket board banned Steve Smith, David Warner for a year each and Cameron Bancroft for nine months for their involvement in ball tampering against the South African side. The trio have already served eight months of their exodus from the Australian cricket.

Recently an independent review conducted by the Cricket Australia(CA) revealed that the Board was also partly responsible for the ball tampering fiasco and the report labelled the Cricket board as “arrogant and controlling”. Now even the Australia Players’ Association has requested the CA to reconsider the bans on the players.

"These contrite men have suffered enough. Let them play," said Greg Dyer, head of the players' union, in October.

After the players were banned the performance of the Australian team has gone from worse to bad. They lost the ODI series against England 5-0, then recently Pakistan defeated them in both the Test and T20 series and then also finally they also lost against South Africa at home.

Now with a tough home challenge against India across all formats, the challenge for the Australian team is not going to get any easier. Australia will face India in a two month long series which will have three T20Is, four Test matches and three ODIs. The series begins on 21st of this month with the shortest format of the game.