Cricket: Australia must do what's 'right and proper' and forfeit test, says Alan Jones

Steven Smith and Cameron Bancroft (L) of Australia face the media. Photo / Getty

Australia must do what is "right and proper" and forfeit the test against South Africa, says Australian radio broadcaster Alan Jones.

Australian cricket is still reeling from their biggest scandal in years after captain Steve Smith confessed to coming up with a plan to cheat by tampering with the ball in the third test against South Africa.

With the test set to continue tonight, Jones has called for Cricket Australia to forfeit the test.

"You can't have the Australian team on the paddock tonight," Jones told Mark Watson on Newstalk ZB.

"Cricket Australia in my view should already have rung Cricket South Africa to say that we are making a decision, we are forfeiting the test, we don't think it's right and proper that our team should continue to compete having already been identified and confessed to cheating.

"This behaviour disqualifies us from any entitlement to continue in this game. We have cheated."

Meanwhile, the Australian Sports Commission, an Australian Government agency, are the latest to call for Smith to be stood down immediately.

Cricket Australia had previously refused to take any immediate action against Smith, while investigations are taking place, but pressure for the Australian captain to be sacked is increasing.

"The ASC condemns cheating of any form in sport. The ASC expects and requires that Australian teams and athletes demonstrate unimpeachable integrity in representing our country," the ASC said in a statement.

"The Australian cricket team are iconic representatives of our country. The example they set matters a great deal to Australia and to the thousands of young Australians playing or enjoying the sport of cricket and who look up to the national team as role models.

"Given the admission by Australian captain Steve Smith, the ASC calls for him to be stood down immediately by Cricket Australia, along with any other members of the team leadership group or coaching staff who had prior awareness of, or involvement in, the plan to tamper with the ball."

In an extraordinary end of play press conference earlier today, Bancroft admitted ball tampering and Smith revealed it was the idea of the team management during the lunch break.