Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland says he is "stunned and greatly baffled" and has started an examination concerning the ball-altering embarrassment including the Australia group on visit in South Africa.
Cameron Bancroft conceded he altered the ball on Saturday in Cape Town, and chief Steve Smith said he knew about the arrangement ahead of time.
Two senior CA authorities will go to South Africa to "accumulate pertinent data", however Smith will stay as skipper for the time being.
"Steve Smith is as of now commander, we are working through a procedure. When we have a clearer photo of the certainties we will have the capacity to make additionally remark," Sutherland said on the captain's position
TV film demonstrated Bancroft, who has been charged over the occurrence by the International Cricket Council, take what he said was yellow tape out of his pant take before rubbing the ball amid the third Test at Newlands
CA's head of trustworthiness Iain Roy and head of group execution Pat Howard will now go to South Africa.
"We have a duty to take this further and to see more about the issue," Sutherland said. "We will, throughout the following couple of days, get a profound comprehension of what happened and why.
"We are greatly baffled and stunned and we are managing this issue with most extreme earnestness and reality.
"This is an exceptionally dismal day for Australian cricket and I feel like Australian cricket fans feel at the present time."
Sutherland said he had addressed Smith about the group's conduct before the ball-altering episode, following various disputable occurrences amid the arrangement with South Africa, yet had not done as such since Bancroft's charge.
"I have exceptionally solid and clear perspectives about the obligation of the Australian group to play the diversion in the correct soul," he included.