Australia skipper Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner have been banned from all forms of cricket 12 months for ball-tampering, according to media reports in Australia.
Cameron Bancroft has been suspended for nine months by the Australian cricket body.
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Warner and Smith have been punished for their part in a pre-meditated plan to tamper with the ball on the third day of the Cape Town Test against South Africa. Bancroft was the player to actually tamper with the ball.
Axed captain Smith, vice-captain Warner and batsman Cameron Bancroft have all been sent home from South Africa for their role in a scandal that has rocked Australian cricket.
"I understand that Steve Smith and David Warner are getting a 12-month ban from the game in Australia," ABC's chief cricket commentator Jim Maxwell was quoted as saying in the report.
"I don't know how that affects them elsewhere in the world, but I understand that is the nature of the penalty, the sanction as they like to call it." Maxwell was unaware about the fate of Cameron Bancroft, who was caught on camera scuffing up the ball during the Cape Town test against South Africa.
CA chief James Sutherland is expected to officially announce "significant sanctions" for the trio at a news conference in Johannesburg later on Wednesday.
