{"id":10491,"date":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/banned-steve-smith-has-signed-up-to-play-t20-in-uae-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T00:00:00","slug":"banned-steve-smith-has-signed-up-to-play-t20-in-uae-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/banned-steve-smith-has-signed-up-to-play-t20-in-uae-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Steve Smith Has Signed Up To Play T20 In UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith has signed on to play in the UAE\u2019s T20X League this December, strengthening calls to allow Smith and fellow exiles David Warner and Cameron Bancroft to play cricket in Australia this summer.<\/h3>\n<p>The trio are serving a 12-month ban over the ball tampering scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Australian cricket great Allan Border has told The Daily Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI thought the bans were excessive in the first place. I\u2019d be happy either way &#8212; for the bans to be lifted (entirely) \u2026 but at worst (a compromise) so they can play Sheffield Shield cricket or Big Bash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat makes sense to me. It seems odd you can go off and play in overseas Twenty20 leagues but not play in our own domestic competitions. That seems a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe starting point is the bans were excessive and over-reactionary at the time and hopefully everyone has learnt their lessons. It would be great for our competition to have those guys back playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>David Warner will play in the Bangladesh Premier League in January.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steve Smith exposes farcical nature of his ban by signing with BBL rivals, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenHorne8?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BenHorne8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DRyZGPvCKX\">https:\/\/t.co\/DRyZGPvCKX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vIIe1D7Hbi\">pic.twitter.com\/vIIe1D7Hbi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Telegraph Sport (@telegraph_sport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/telegraph_sport\/status\/1057399270721155073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith has signed on to play in the UAE\u2019s T20X League this December, strengthening calls to allow Smith and fellow exiles David Warner and Cameron Bancroft to play cricket in Australia this summer. The trio are serving a 12-month ban over the ball tampering scandal. Australian cricket great Allan Border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Banned Steve Smith Has Signed Up To Play T20 In UAE - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/banned-steve-smith-has-signed-up-to-play-t20-in-uae-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banned Steve Smith Has Signed Up To Play T20 In UAE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Australian cricket captain Steve Smith has signed on to play in the UAE\u2019s T20X League this December, strengthening calls to allow Smith and fellow exiles David Warner and Cameron Bancroft to play cricket in Australia this summer. 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