Why I have sympathy for Smith and Bancroft, but not Warner
This Australia team have disintegrated completely in less than a week. The captain, vice-captain, opening batsman and coach have all gone in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal, and it is right that they have.
What has happened to Australia - a side who were being treated as heroes by their own public just a couple of months ago after they won the Ashes so emphatically - should serve as a reminder to sports teams everywhere that no matter how invulnerable you feel, bad behaviour on the field will catch up with you.
Australia's conduct has been poor for years now, and the only way it can change is for a complete clean sweep of people at the top.
Do I have sympathy for the guys who have left? Yes - for most, at least. I first met Darren Lehmann when he joined Yorkshire in 1997 and found him a terrific bloke. He had no trouble in mixing with the guys in the dressing room and brought a real energy to the team.
Yes, he played hard and was incredibly focused on winning and being the best he could be, but at no point did I ever suspect he would embrace cheating.
In fact, I still do not - I cannot believe that he knew about the plan to tamper with the ball against South Africa in advance. He just is not that sort of character.
However, Darren will know as well as anyone that the guy who sets the culture of the team is the coach, so when something like this happens on his watch, he simply has to go. It is brutal - and it did not surprise me that he broke down in tears during his announcement yesterday, because he is that passionate about the sport and his country.
But that is the only way Australian cricket can bring about proper change.
It is also why Steve Smith had to go. His press conference yesterday was a seriously tough watch, and he must wonder how it has all gone so horribly wrong so quickly.
But he will get the support he needs to come back from this in the coming weeks and months and I cannot believe he will not come back into international cricket when he has served his time and reflected properly on what he did.
The same goes for Cameron Bancroft - a young guy who seems to have been leant on.
That cannot be said for David Warner. The revelations from Cricket Australia (CA) on Wednesday that he was the mastermind of the plot and had told Bancroft to cheat were damning.
The fact that he had also shown him how to do so - by using sandpaper to scuff one side of the ball - suggests to me that this was not the first time he had done it. All that is a massive black mark against his name.
Sadly for Australia, this story still has some way to run. Warner's comment that he has more to say about the tampering in a few days' time were ominous for CA: now that he has been cut adrift from the national side, he has nothing to lose and they will be nervous about exactly what he might come out with.
In my opinion, Australia should now pay whatever it takes to get Ricky Ponting and Justin Langer to take over and sort out the mess.
Both are hugely respected, have great cricket brains and are passionate about their country. They will be desperate to help, I am sure.
It helped them become the best team in the world for that period, but clearly there is going to have to be a shift in attitude and behaviour in the wake of everything that has happened.
It will be a challenge for them but they are strong enough characters to take it on - CA needs to send out an SOS sooner rather than later.
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