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Australia look for redemption after week of crying shame

30Mar

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Australia look for redemption after week of crying shame

Embattled Australia go back to the business of playing cricket Friday after a week of scandal, suspensions, confessions and torrents of tears.When Australia take the field at the Wanderers in Johannesburg for the fourth and final Test against South Africa, it will be a very different-looking side which was trounced in the ill-fated match at Cape Town. There will be no sign of disgraced trio Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft while, up in the stands, coach Darren Lehmann will oversee his last match before stepping down. Captain Smith looked a broken man at a tearful press conference in Sydney after being banished and suspended for a year for his role in the ball-tampering scandal which shredded his reputation and rocked the sport. "I take full responsibility, I made a s...

Australian ball-tampering: Darren Lehmann to quit as Australia coach

Darren Lehmann is to quit as head coach of Australia at the end of the current Test series against South Africa. The 48-year-old will step down after the final Test in Johannesburg, which starts on Friday, in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal. Lehmann, who was cleared of any wrongdoing by Cricket Australia, had said on Wednesday he would not resign. Former skipper Steve Smith plus batsmen David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were banned for their part in the scandal. Lehmann made his decision after watching Smith and Bancroft deliver emotional apologies at news conferences earlier on Thursday. "After viewing Steve and Cameron's hurting, it's only fair that I make this decision," said Lehmann, who was contracted until the 2019 Ashes. "I'm ultimately responsible for the cultur...

David Warner Admits To “Mental Breakdown” During England ODIs

Before the T20 series final against New Zealand on Wednesday, Dashing left-hander David Warner voiced his concerns over the workload of Australian cricketers, conceding that he was mentally drained during his team's 1-4 ODI series loss to England. Warner sided with captain Steve Smith, who recently stated that the Ashes series had taken a toll on body. "It was a bit of a mental breakdown from a few of us. If you look at the Twenty20 team at the moment, the way these guys have come out of the Big Bash fresh, they're just killing it" he said. "It's sort of set the example that if we come around to the same situation again with a big Ashes series, do we look at certain things? And that's up to Cricket Australia to look at and judge." "It's up to the individual as well to put their ha...