NEW DELHI: In a shocking revelation, David Warner's manager James Erskine has blamed Cricket Australia executives for encouraging the Australian cricket team to cheat in Hobart, 2016 much before the sandpaper gate scandal which broke out in the Cape Town Test in 2018.
Then skipper Steve Smith and his deputy Warner were slapped with one-year bans for their role in the 2018 incident while opener Cameron Bancroft was handed a nine-month suspension.