Video Australia coach quits in tears
"It was a failure of my leadership".
He tweeted: "I apologize for my part and take responsibility for it". If any good can come through this, if there can be a lesson to others, I hope I can be a force for change.
"As many who sit in this room would know, life on the road means a lot of time away from our loved ones, and after speaking with my family at length over the last few days, it's the right time to step away.""I'm sorry and I'm absolutely devastated".
This was head-spinning news not only in Australia but also among worldwide fans of cricket, a sport that arrogates to itself a particular moral sanctimony, though it is not immune to cheating.
"I hope the team rebuilds from this and the Australian public find it in their hearts to forgive these young men".
"I want to say that I am very sorry", Cameron Bancroft told the media after reaching Australia.
Aged only 28, months after an Ashes series in which he had been master of all he surveyed, Smith could take aim at Test cricket's greatest batting records: most runs; most centuries; nearly everything, indeed, bar Bradman's 99.94 average.
Smith made a tearful apology in Sydney on Thursday after he was banned for a year after his team was found ball-tampering in the third Test against South Africa last weekend. Smith and Bancroft held emotional press conferences in Australia yesterday after returning from South Africa, while coach Darren Lehmann said he would quit after the fourth and final Test which starts Friday, despite being cleared of any involvement in the affair.
Warner, who has been suspended by Cricket Australia for 12 months, did not take questions when he landed back in Australia on Thursday night.
"I apologise for my part and take responsibility for it".
"It's a stain on the game we all love and I have loved since I was a boy", he said.
Video Crying shame Smith sobs on TV
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Bancroft, too, has been released by Somerset, his English county team as the fallout from the tampering scandal continues.
"It's my actions that I'm accountable for here".
An emotional Bancroft said he was ashamed when he arrived back in Perth.
The way the side folded in one session to lose the last test by 322-runs showed they had mentally disintegrated after the three players admitted conspiring to scuff up the ball during the match.
He had an Indian Premier League contract worth??1.35 million a year, where he was captain of the Rajasthan Royals.
The confessions of Smith and Bancroft, in particular, have prompted many in the game to appeal for the players to be cut some slack.
Bancroft confessed to lying about using sticky tape rather than sandpaper to rough up the ball during a news conference immediately after the incident on Saturday.
The Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) said there were a number of "glaring and clear anomalies" in the process leading up to the bans for Smith, Warner and Bancroft.
"The whole opportunity for us going forward is something that we can learn from and something we can try and control, how we are seen by the Australian public and become the team we want to become and they want us to be seen as".
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