‘There was far more than three people involved in this thing’- David Warner’s manager makes shocking revelation in ball-tampering saga
David Warner, James Erskine (Image Credit: Twitter)
Australia opening batter David Warner‘s manager, James Erskine has decided to open the lid on the infamous ball-tampering incident. In an unfortunate incident in 2018, youngster Cameron Bancroft was caught rubbing sandpaper on the ball. Later, he revealed that the likes of the then-skipper Steve Smith and David Warner asked him to do so. After this, the trio was sent back to Australia.
After a while, all these players were banned with Bancroft slapped with a nine-month ban. On the other hand, the likes of Smith and Warner were handed one-year bans. Years after this, Warner’s manager, James Erskine had decided to speak out on the matter. The latter has come out at a time when David decided to ‘withdraw his plea’. Meanwhile, Erskine said there were ‘more than just the three players’ involved in the matter.
“The truth will come out, let me tell you. There are lots of people. There’s two cricketers who put their hands up and said at the time, ‘Why don’t we all just tell the truth, they can’t fire all of us’. That’s what happened.”
“Two senior executives were in the changing room in Hobart and basically were berating the team for losing against South Africa (in 2016) and Warner said we’ve got to reverse-swing the ball. The only way we can reverse-swing the ball is by tampering with it.”
David Warner not having a legal right to appeal is absurd: James Erskine
James further spoke about Warner’s recent issues with Cricket Australia. The former said that CA could have done a sensible thing by letting Warner have his say.
“Why Cricket Australia couldn’t have done a very sensible thing and said listen, it’s not legal that someone doesn’t have a right of appeal. It’s just absurd, why should he have to go through that, he has done everything he possibly could for Cricket Australia and for his team, and now he’s being treated like this… this is injustice at its greatest level,” added Erskine.
