5 important lessons to learn from Australia’s Sandpaper Gate

#Lesson 3: The Higher you Climb, the Harder you Fall

The team of Integrity Officers and some key members of Cricket Australia slapped one year life ban on Warner and Smith. Bancroft, on the other hand, was handed over a 9-month ban. There’s more to it. Warner, even after making a comeback to the side will never be considered for a leadership role, while Smith and Bancroft can only be considered a year after making their comeback to the Australian side.

In Australia, the captain of the national cricket team is considered as the second most powerful person after the Prime Minister. The Aussies put a lot of weight behind their cricket captain. In the midst of this turmoil, the general public of Australia who had earlier chosen Steve Smith as the ‘Australian of the Year’ in January 2018 were not ready to forgive him.

Steve Smith and David Warner even in the wildest of their dreams must have never thought of bringing so much disrepute to their country and put their glorious cricketing careers on the line. Probably, they failed to realize that being the batting heavyweights of the side doesn’t make you indispensable by any chance, especially when your countrymen are not by your side.