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'He should've told us': Darren Lehmann says as Cameron Bancroft reveals David Warner's role in ball-tampering scandal

Lehmann thinks Bancroft should have consulted the coaching staff after Warner urged him to use sandpaper to tamper the ball.

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Darren Lehmann thinks Cameron Bancroft should have consulted the coaching staff after David Warner urged him to use sandpaper to tamper the ball during the Cape Town Test against South Africa in March this year.

Bancroft is among the three Australian suspended players who were suspended for their role in the scandal. Lehmann was the head coach of the team and had resigned after the incident. 

“Yeah, he could’ve and should’ve (come to the coaches), I think he says that,” Lehmann told Macquarie Sports Radio on Wednesday.

“He should’ve come to us, at the end of the day it was a mistake — we know that. (It was) a severe mistake made by the guys and a lot of people have suffered one way or the other through that. We know it shouldn’t have happened, but it did.”

His comments came at a time when Bancroft has broken his silence on the ball-tampering scandal.

He has cast David Warner as the instigator and himself as an impressionable rookie that just wanted to "fit in" to the team. 

Bancroft, who was suspended for nine months for his part in 'sandpaper-gate', told former Australia wicketkeeper-turned TV pundit Adam Gilchrist in an interview on Fox Sports that Warner had asked him to manipulate the ball and he had readily agreed.

“I didn’t know any better because I just wanted to fit in and feel valued really. As simple as that.

“The decision was based around my values, what I valued at the time, and I valued fitting in … you hope that fitting in earns you respect and with that, I guess, there came a pretty big cost for the mistake.”

Lehmann, who immediately stepped down from his role in the aftermath of the scandal, said the captain Steve Smith, who was suspended for 12 months along with Warner, should have had more control on the situation.

“Smith as captain, his disappointing thing that he spoke about was as captain of the country he should’ve had more control of it,” Lehmann said.

“Steven decided to turn a blind eye … I still can’t understand the pressures of captaining your country, it’s quite high you would think.”

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