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Key facts, figures from cricket's review

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FINDINGS, FACTS AND FIGURES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKET REVIEW

* 145 pages, featuring surveys of 469 people, including current and former players, Cricket Australia board members, administrators and other stakeholders. Fans were not surveyed

* Only 28 per cent of current players took part in the survey

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* 39 passages in the report were redacted for legal reasons

* Only three current players are mentioned by name - banned trio Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft

* The report was commissioned after the South African ball-tampering scandal

* CA's many achievements are acknowledged but the report questions the means by which some success has happened

* "A significantly large number of respondents believe that cricket's success is a by-product of a culture based on an unstated, but extant, approach of 'winning at all costs'."

* But the report disagrees, saying CA's fault is that it made "the fateful mistake of enacting a program (after the 2011 Argus review) that would lead to 'winning without counting the costs'."

* There are also "shadow values and principles" that are at odds with CA's formal ethical guidelines

* "Australian cricket has lost its balance ... and has stumbled badly"

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* "Those who wear the baggy green live in a gilded bubble - disconnected ... they see themselves as being part of a machine that is fine-tuned for the sole purpose of winning"

* "In the worst cases, players are called upon to 'play the mongrel'."

* Factors contributing to South Africa included a lack of maturity of judgment, fear of speaking up and a win-at-all-costs mentality

* "Admiration of the results achieved by CA is undermined by criticism of the way those results have been achieved"

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* "CA seems to have simply assumed that the core values and principles of cricket would generate the ethical restraint needed to offset the focus on competition ... this was CA's fundamental mistake"

* "Australians want their teams to play hard but fair - to win on the basis of merit, whatever others might choose to do. If we are to fail, then let it be with honour."

* There are 42 key recommendations in the report covering Australian cricket, the national team and CA.

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