English limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan is hopeful that cricket will restrain its value after the bans imposed by Cricket Australia (CA). In the last month, international cricket observed a lot of controversial incidents but the ball-tampering incident mostly hurt the game.

During the day three of the third Test between the hosts South Africa and Australia at Cape Town, Australian opening batsman Cameron Bancroft tried to change the ball condition by using yellow sandpaper. Australian captain Steven Smith and vice-captain David Warner had the leading role in that incident as Warner was the mastermind of that action while Smith knew about that incident too.

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All of them accepted their mistakes while ICC only suspended Smith for one Test only (and also fined Smith and Bancroft for that). After the thorough investigation, CA has suspended Smith and Warner for one year and Bancroft for nine months from the international and domestic cricket.

In the addition, Warner will never be able to lead the national side again, while Smith and Bancroft will have to wait one more year after the end of their suspensions to able for leading the national side once again.

England left-handed batsman and limited-overs skipper Eoin Morgan said on this, “In the last two weeks cricket has been battered and not for the right reasons.”

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Morgan believes CA’s ban will help to regain the value of the game. The 31-years old claimed, “I’d like to think the balance changed when the sanctions were imposed. Cricket Australia have shown how serious the actual mistake was and how seriously they regard the values, principles, spirit and laws of the game.”

Morgan further added, “You can see it and say it’s wrong but to then back it up with such a sanction says a huge amount. This isn’t two of their worst players either, it’s two of their best – one [Smith] is possibly one of their greatest ever.”

Talking more about the ball-tampering, Morgan quoted, “Throwing the ball in, one bounce, is fine… but if you throw to the keeper from long-on or long-off, the umpires will monitor how often the ball hits the playing surface and tell you they’ll change the ball if you do it again. So, yes, there are grey areas but I think Cricket Australia have gone a long way to saying none of it is acceptable.”