'Players paying for administrators' mistakes is history of the game,' Ian Chappell explains Cricket Australia culture

Just a day after the review of the ball tampering scandal was released by a Sydney-based Ethics Centre condemned, former Australian captain Ian Chappell made a few comments that may not good with Cricket Australia (CA). 

While the result of the review slammed CA's culture as "arrogant and controlling," Chappell said that banned players David Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft have the right to be angry that while they were slapped with harsh punishments, CA's administrators got away without any action against them. 

"If they are banned and no administrators are tossed out on their backside then that’s not going to help to marry them up again – Cricket Australia and the players.

Quite rightly, the players are going to be angry about that – the fact that it’s only them who have copped it in the neck. But that’s the history of the game. The administrators make the mistakes and the players cop the punishment,” Chappell added. 

After the review report, Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) on Monday said that the players should have their bans reduced as they were under too much pressure from the administrators. 

“There must be a reconsideration of the harshness of the penalties handed down to Steve Smith, David Warner, and Cameron Bancroft,” ACA President Greg Dyer said.

While Smith and Warner were handed a 12-month ban, Bancroft was given a nine-month ban after the ball tampering incident that took place during the 2nd Test against South Africa in Newlands in March.