Jason Gillespie has whacked the Australian Cricket team, claiming that Steve Smith and David Warner's reign as leaders is over.
Gillespie, just one of many former players hitting out on the team following the ball tampering saga, says the team now has to rebuild its reputation and culture.
“The brutal reality is that this team are seen as arrogant and all too quick to dictate ‘the line’ to others,” Gillespie said in column on The Guardian.
“The events over the weekend have exposed this as rank hypocrisy.
“Australian cricket will survive this and provided there is some honesty with the camp, it will hopefully emerge in better shape.
“New leaders will rise up and take the side forward. But it will not be Smith and it will not be Warner.”
Gillespie believes that it is crucial that all the players and coaches involved stand up and are appropriately shamed and has called for this train wreck to be resolved as soon as possible.
“This was pre-planned cheating. It may have been implemented by a junior player in Cameron Bancroft but it came with the backing and knowledge of ‘the leadership group’, a core of senior guys in the Australian set-up,” Gillespie added.
“The reputation of a team who were already drawing scorn for their behaviour has been torched.
“We need this information and we need it yesterday because I know of at least one senior player who is outraged that they have been dragged into the dirt by association without having been involved at all."
Gillespie does have sympathy for chief executive James Suthlerland, but none for the current captain Steve Smith.
Gillespie believes that Smith hasn't grasped the severity of the issue and has no sympathy for him or any of the playing group.
