Warner steps down as Sunrisers captain

IPL 2018 | After Steve Smith, David Warner's captaincy in doubt as SRH await CA decision

IPL 2018 | After Steve Smith, David Warner's captaincy in doubt as SRH await CA decision

And now with Warner's participation in IPL increasingly clouded by Cricket Australia's next course of action with him, SRH are looking at other options with the league starting in two weeks.

Respected ABC chief cricket commentator Jim Maxwell reported the news after Warner quit as captain of the SunRisers Hyderabad IPL team.

BCCI has directed their respective teams, Rajasthan Royals, and Sunrisers Hyderabad to find a replacement for Steve Smith and David Warner.

Sunrisers duly confirmed on Wednesday that Warner had stood down as their captain. After which the Australian skipper Smith and Warner stepped down as the captain and vice-captain.

The cricketers can face trouble in upcoming IPL after the ball-tampering scandal against South Africa in Test.

After reports of CA banning David Warner and Steve Smith for one year went viral, the IPL Governing Council has chose to not allow these players to participate in the tournament's 11th edition. Warner first started working with LG as the company's brand ambassador in 2014.

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"Prior knowledge of the ball tampering incident was limited to three players..."

He was filmed not only rubbing the ball with the dirtied tape but also concealing the evidence down the front of his pants.

The footage showed Bancroft rubbing the rough side of the ball, the opposite side to which he would usually be trying to shine on his pants. Lehmann seemed to speak to Handscomb after footage of Bancroft working on the ball was shown on the TV screens at the ground. Back at home, they are heavily criticized by the Australian media. When Bancroft spoke to the umpires, he was shown holding a bigger, black cloth rather than the small yellow object he had earlier seemed to place down his pants.

Smith and Bancroft confessed that, after a discussion during a break in play, they decided they would try to change the condition of the ball using a piece of yellow adhesive tape and some dirt collected from the side of the pitch.

Meanwhile, IPL commissioner Rajiv Shukla also said that the Aussie duo won't be allowed to take part in the league and the SRH and RR will get a chance to replace the banned players.

Smith has already been suspended for one Test and docked his entire match fee by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for his role in the affair.

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