But that won't be happening given Warner was slapped with a lifetime leadership ban by Cricket Australia for his role in Sandpapergate.<\/p>\n
Smith's two year leadership suspension ended last year and he is widely viewed as the most likely option to replace Paine.<\/p>\n
Smith also has the support of former Test skipper Mark Taylor.<\/a><\/p>\n But Chappell raised an awkward question for CA on WWOS radio<\/em> on Thursday night.<\/a><\/p>\n "Why aren't Smith and Warner in the same category?<\/p>\n "If Smith only gets a 12 month ban on captaincy, why doesn't Warner only get that?<\/p>\n "Or if Warner gets a lifetime ban on captaincy, why doesn't Smith?<\/p>\n "Because Smith's crime in my eyes was greater than Warner's," Chappell said.<\/p>\n "Yeah sure, he might get the captaincy again but I think it's only going to be in the circumstances where there's not much other choice."<\/p>\n Smith was captain in the infamous Test in South Africa while CA fingered banned vice-captain David Warner as the architect of a plan to cheat<\/a>, alleging he advised Cameron Bancroft how to alter the ball with sandpaper in Cape Town.<\/p>\n Chappell told WWOS<\/em> that talk of current vice-captain Pat Cummins<\/a> replacing Paine was "an indication of how light we are for candidates."<\/p>\n "I've got the greatest admiration for Pat, not just the way he bowls, but the way he plays the game," Chappell explained.<\/p>\n "But I'd be very wary of loading him up with any more responsibility. But where the hell else do you go?<\/p>\n "I know where I'd be going, but he's been banned for life (Warner).<\/p>\n "I think they were hoping (Travis) Head would be a candidate but in my view, he's going to struggle to hold his place in the side on a permanent basis."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Legendary Australia skipper Ian Chappell has questioned why Steve Smith can captain his country but David Warner can't. Chappell told Wide World of Sports that […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25036,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25034\/revisions\/25036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"India](\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/01\/337690\/pickerImage.jpg\")
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