ADELAIDE: Todd Greenberg, chief executive of the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA), slammed Cricket Australia for losing control of the situation and asserts that the Test team is dissatisfied with how David Warner's leadership ban has been handled.
The Adelaide Test has been marred by Warner's decision to drop his request for a review of the decision to relieve his suspension and the outrage over an independent panel's demand that his appeal is heard in public.
Greenberg said, the 35-year-old Test opener was forced to withdraw his pitch out of concern for the welfare of both his family and the Australian team.
He also expressed the union's view that there was no longer any chance to rescue the situation because the single sanction left over from the 2018 ball-tampering scandal had been eliminated.
Given that both Cricket Australia and Warner had anticipated the process to be played out in secret, Greenberg claims he was perplexed as to how it had come to this.
However, he claimed that in addition to Warner, the other players and Australian cricket were the biggest losers, with Warner's teammates feeling the same way.
Greenberg told SEN that to say they were "unbelievably frustrated" would be an understatement.
"That was the main feeling I experienced. Not just for David and his family, but for all of us, we are very frustrated. But I also know that his teammates are quite frustrated with the way this process has been allowed to linger into the summer of tests.
After Warner's manager James Erskine made the stunning assertion on Thursday that players had been given permission to tamper with the ball as early as 2016, Greenberg said any retracing of the events leading up to the Cape Town incident would not be helpful.
After the union initially made a pitch to have the restriction lifted in February, the ACA chief labelled the entire procedure as complicated and said there was no justification for the hearing to be held with reporters present.
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