Live: Cricket Australia announce findings over ball-tampering scandal

Steven Smith (capt) and Cameron Bancroft (L) of Australia during day 3 of the 3rd Sunfoil Test match between South Africa and Australia. Photo / Getty Images.

Cricket Australia's chief executive James Sutherland addresses the media to deliver the findings into the ball-tampering investigation.

The Australian team arrived in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon to learn their fate over the ball-tampering scandal.

The Australia squad and management flew from Cape Town to Johannesburg where James Sutherland, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, is due to give a press conference at 6am with punishments and sackings expected for leading members of the team and management.

Reports in Australia are firmly pointing the finger of blame at David Warner with suggestions he has fallen out with team-mates and been isolated within the camp.

Darren Lehmann, the head coach, is expected to lose his job, with the question whether he resigns of his own volition or is sacked by Sutherland, who himself is facing calls for his resignation and must act decisively to save his job.

Steve Smith is set to be stripped of the captaincy and faces a year ban along with his vice-captain Warner. Cameron Bancroft, the player who carried out the ball tampering, will also learn his punishment after investigators interviewed players and coaches over the last 24 hours.

Australia have called up Matt Renshaw and he is flying from Australia to Johannesburg to play in the fourth Test which starts on Friday. Smith has already been banned from that game. Renshaw scored 81 for Queensland in their victory over Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield final this week. He lost his place to Bancroft before the start of the Ashes series in November.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday morning that Warner may have played his last game for Australia such is the anger within the squad. The newspaper reported that Warner had told investigators all players were aware of the ball tampering plan believing blame should be spread rather than fall on one or two individuals.

But the bowlers, Josh Hazelwood, MItchell Starc and Nathan Lyon are said to be incensed and claim they knew nothing of the ball tampering plan. Warner has removed himself from the team's WhatsApp messaging group as he distanced himself from his colleagues.

The full truth will probably never emerge but somehow Sutherland has to reunite a team ripped apart by this scandal and shocking fall from grace for Smith and the whole team.

Australia Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, weighed into the debate again on Tuesday, heaping pressure on Sutherland, saying: "This cheating is a disgrace, we all know that, it is a terrible disgrace.

"Cricket Australia is dealing with it, they have to investigate it and they have to continue to act decisively and emphatically. Where do we want to get to? I'll tell you where we want to get to, we want to get to the point where we can all say once again, not rhetorically but heartfelt and with sincerity, that cricket is a fair game, cricket is a game that is synonymous with a fair go and fair play, that's what has to happen.

"They now have to make sure that this great national game, this great international game, that is synonymous with fair play, is once again a game that is played by champions that everybody can look up to. This has been a shocking affront to Australia."