IPL 2018: Smith, Warner banned for 1 year

Following the Cricket Australia’s 12-month ban on former Australia’s skipper Steve Smith and Vice-captain David Warner, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Wednesday barred Steve Smith and David Warner from taking part in the eleventh edition of Indian Premier League, reports The Statesman.

Earlier, in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal that has recently shocked the cricket world, CA banned Warner and Smith for one year. The incident of tampering took place on the third day of the third Test of a four-match series between Australia and South Africa. The match was played in Newlands, Cape Town.

Smith and Warner were supposed to captain their respective franchises Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad in this edition but had stepped down in the wake of the scandal. CA’s sanction paved the way for BCCI to ban the duo.

“They (Cricket Australia) have banned two players and we are also barring these two players from this year’s IPL,” IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla told reporters.

“We wanted everything in our own hands. First, we waited for ICC’s decision, after that Cricket Australia and then we decided on the matter.”

“We have decided to bar them from this season. The replacements will be made available to the two teams. We did not take any decision in haste, it was a well thought out decision,” he added.

Smith and Warner, along with Cameron Bancroft, were ordered to return home midway into the series Tuesday.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Manish Pandey, Rashid Khan Arman, Shikhar Dhawan, Wriddhiman Saha, Siddarth Kaul, Deepak Hooda, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Kane Williamson, Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Shreevats Goswami, Mohammad Nabi, Chris Jordan, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Sachin Baby, Bipul Sharma, Syed Mehdi Hasan, Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal.

Rajasthan Royals: Benjamin Stokes, Jaydev Unadkat, Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jos Buttler, Ajinkya Rahane, Darcy Short, Rahul Tripathi, Dhawal Kulkarni, Zahir Khan Pakteen, Ben Laughlin, Stuart Binny, Dushmantha Chameera, Anureet Singh, Aryaman Vikram Birla, Midhun S, Shreyas Gopal, Prashant Chopra, Jatin Saxena, Ankit Sharma, Mahipal Lomror.