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Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has urged the country to give disgraced trio Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft some space and time. Smith and Bancroft wept with regret and shame on Thursday, repeatedly breaking down in apologetic press conferences upon their return home. An emotional Warner, flanked by wife Candice and his two children, stopped briefly to speak with reporters at Sydney airport. The cheating scandal has changed Australian cricket forever, while the lives of Smith, Warner and Bancroft will clearly never be the same


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Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has urged the country to give disgraced trio Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft some space and time. Smith and Bancroft wept with regret and shame on Thursday, repeatedly breaking down in apologetic press conferences upon their return home. An emotional Warner, flanked by wife Candice and his two children, stopped briefly to speak with reporters at Sydney airport. The cheating scandal has changed Australian cricket forever, while the lives of Smith, Warner and Bancroft will clearly never be the same



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