Amid the sexting scandal that led to Test captain Tim Paine resigning from his position less than three weeks before the Ashes began, it is learned that the Australian selectors had reportedly made a secret approach. Cricket The Australia (CA) board will bring back Steve Smith as the captain of the Test team in October.
Smith was the Australian captain before the 2018 ball-tampering scandal – also known as the sandpaper gate scandal – blasted the team in the face and resulted in the captain, vice-captain David Warner and Cameron Bancroft receiving unprecedented bans from Cricket Australia. Happened.
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Smith was dropped and wicketkeeper-batsman Penn was made captain across formats, before Aaron Finch took over the ODI and T20I captaincy.
However, the Herald Sun reported that the Australian selectors had secretly approached CA to get Smith to lead the team again, which imposed a one-year ban on Smith.
sen.com.au ran a story as quoted by the Herald Sun, “It is understood that the selectors were interested in the idea that Smith should be able to captain or the same should happen to Tim Paine.”
With Paine’s unprecedented resignation in the wake of the sexting scandal, fast bowler and current vice-captain Pat Cummins has emerged as the top contender for the job.
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“However, Smith could be appointed as vice-captain to support Cummins, who would be the first fast bowler to captain Australia since 1956, when Ray Lindwall took the role for solitary Tests. Smith was barred from holding a leadership position within the team for two years following the Cape Town events, with that ban having expired a year earlier,” sen.com.au said on Saturday.
The first match of the Ashes starts on 8 December at the Gabba in Brisbane.
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