Cricket Australia insist they did everything possible to keep tour to South Africa alive
Cricket by Sam Landsberger
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Subscriber only Australian citizens stranded overseas would have had their places in hotel quarantine taken by the likes of Steve Smith and David Warner if Cricket Australia agreed to travel to COVID-stricken South Africa.
CA s bombshell decision to abandon the Test series has fractured relations between the cricket boards, three years after the most explosive series ever played culminated in the sandpaper scandal. Overseas reports have smashed CA for shifting the goalposts and then leaving Cricket South Africa (CSA) at the altar by walking away from negotiations at the last minute, despite Cricket South Africa allegedly moving heaven and earth to host the series.
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