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Giving umpires authority to send-off players for poor behaviour – including sledging – and commissioning a review of existing high performance practices are among recommendations to be considered by Cricket Australia following today's release of a wide-ranging culture review.

The 145-page report also refutes the "mistaken" view that CA had overseen a 'win at all costs' policy, but rather had fostered a philosophy to 'win without counting the cost' in line with recommendations produced by previous reviews of team performance and corporate governance conducted in 2011.

Download the full Ethics Centre Review here

The current review, which was empanelled in the wake of the ball tampering scandal in South Africa that plunged Australian cricket into shame, contained 42 recommendations for CA and the game's other partners and stakeholders.

Of those recommendations, 34 have been identified by CA as either worthy of implementation or already contained within existing practices and protocols that can be re-examined in order to incorporate suggestions put forward by the report's authors, the Sydney-based Ethics Centre.

Seven recommendations – including the proposal for umpires to be granted send-off powers and the review of the high-performance operations – will undergo further consideration by CA, while only one was rejected out-of-hand as inappropriate.

All 42 recommendations - and CA's responses

That suggestion was for players in the Test and ODI teams to be "excused" from T20 International cricket to grant them greater availability for Sheffield Shield and Premier cricket, a proposal that CA refuted because it effectively demeaned the importance of the 20-over format.

The process also included a concurrent player review led by ex-Test opener Rick McCosker and Director of the Centre for Ethical Leadership, Peter Collins, with support from current and former players George Bailey, Pat Cummins, Rachael Haynes, Tim Paine, Justin Langer and Shane Watson.

That review resulted in the drafting of a "Players' Pact" which was released today by Paine and Hazlewood.

Cricket Australia Chairman David Peever says he wont resign. Penny Stephens

by Patrick Durkin

Cricket Australia chairman David Peever refuses to resign despite cricket's governing body being branded "arrogant" and "dictatorial" by stakeholders in a scathing independent review.

Cricket Australia said it would accept all but one of The Ethics Centre's 42 recommendations released on Monday in the wake of the Cape Town cheating scandal, including a revamp of player bonuses, an expanded code of conduct and a red-card system.

The 145-page report canvasses the views of 469 people working in cricket, some of which have been redacted for legal reasons, and sheets a large share of the blame for the cheating scandal home to administrators.

The report finds a culture of bullying at head office and also singles out cricket executives for receiving $1.9 million in bonuses but Mr Peever defended the payments and his board.

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