Australia cricket great Allan Border has thrown his weight behind batting stalwart David Warner, asking Cricket Australia (CA) to lift the lifetime leadership ban imposed on the 35-year-old player for his role in the ball-tampering scandal during the away series against South Africa in 2018.

Three Australia cricketers -- the then-skipper Steve Smith, his deputy Warner and Cameron Bancroft -- were banned from playing international and domestic cricket for varying periods not exceeding a year in the aftermath of the episode, which came to be known as the `sandpaper-gate scandal`.