The New South Wales (NSW) Cricket Association has finally cleared the way for the Smith Smith and David Warner for playing grade cricket this summer, but Cameron Bancroft is yet to get a green signal from his club in Perth this season. Cricket Australia’s sanctions for Smith, Warner, and Bancroft for their part in the Cape Town ball-tampering scandal prevent them from playing international and Australian domestic cricket, but not Premier Cricket.

On Monday, Western Australia’s Premier clubs are going to conduct a meeting in order to determine whether Bancroft will be allowed to play for one of the clubs. According to the rule of The Western Australia District Cricket Council, if a player suspended by the WACA, their club association or Cricket Australia then the players will “automatically disqualified from participation in WADCC Competitions for the duration of that suspension”.

The NSWCA has a similar clause in its by-laws, but they decided to instead apply CA’s sanctions, which explicitly allow Smith and Warner to play Premier Cricket. It’s also understood neither player will be eligible to lead their respective club teams this summer.

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Smith’s Sydney team Sutherland and Warner’s club side Randwick-Petersham have already expressed support for their respective players, with the latter club’s president Mike Whitney (the former Test bowler) telling Fairfax he expects Warner to be available for the early part of the 2018-19 summer.

Bancroft began playing for Willetton in the Under-13s back in 2002-03 and later on, he got promoted to the senior ranks as a 14-year-old in the club’s fourth XI before making his first-grade debut aged 16.

“We’re moving to ask if (the WACA DCC) would be prepared, for his wellbeing, to grant an exception,” Willetton president Ron Kukura told News Ltd. “We’re doing everything we can to get him to play. We want him to play cricket with our club and he wishes to play,” he further added.