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Warner's action despicable, apology counts for little: CA

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Press Trust of India Melbourne
Last Updated : Jun 14 2013 | 10:25 AM IST
The punishment has been handed but Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland remains livid with David Warner, saying the opener's bar-room brawl during the Champions Trophy was "despicable" and his public apology for the incident counts for little.
"David Warner has done a despicable thing," Sutherland told reporters in Brisbane.
"But I also hold the team to account here. There were other people there with him and those that were there need to take responsibility for that, but so does the team as a whole and the team management group as a whole," he said.
Sutherland said the team management was also to be blamed for the incident.
"There is no place for violence anywhere and I'm extremely disappointed in that. I'm extremely disappointed in him and I have told him that ... There were certain things that led to this situation that happened, as I understand it, at 2.30 in the morning," he said.
"There's not a lot of good that happens at 2.30 in the morning in a pub or a nightclub. I believe that the team as a whole and the people who were around him at the time also need to take responsibility for what happened."
Warner, who was yesterday suspended until the Ashes, offered unconditional apologies for getting into an altercation with England player Joe Root in a bar after Australia's opening Champions Trophy loss to the hosts in Birmingham.

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First Published: Jun 14 2013 | 10:25 AM IST

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