Veteran Australia batsmen David Warner and Steve Smith grabbed the headlines in 2018 for their roles in the ball-tampering plot during Cape Town Test against South Africa.

Australian cricket was shaken to the core after cameras had caught Cameron Bancroft using sandpaper to alter the condition of the ball at Newlands. Subsequently, then captain Smith and his deputy Warner were given 12-month bans while Bancroft was handed a nine-month suspension under Cricket Australia's Code of Conduct.

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After serving their bans, the duo of Warner and Smith made a successful comeback to international cricket during the World Cup and Ashes in England last year.

As the ball-tampering scandal will complete two years by the end of this month, a documentary titled “The Test” is set to be released on Thursday (March 12), highlighting how these two players rebuild their reputation following the torrid period.

In the documentary, the directors have shown a detailed story and things that turned out to be the main factors behind their comeback ahead of the World Cup.

When Smith joined the national side, he told his team-mates that he at times felt like walking away from the game during year-long suspension.

“From a personal point of view it was pretty tough and I’ve had times where I probably didn’t want to come back and play to be perfectly honest,” Smith said as quoted by nine.com.au.

In a meeting held in Dubai with Aussie teammates, Warner also said he'd completed plenty of self-reflection in his time away from the game. But the southpaw believed he was returning to a different team than the one he left in South Africa a year earlier.

“In the last 12 months, I have had a lot of reflecting to do. With cricket and what happened in the past and getting better as a team person as well. From looking the outside in you can see the whole team as we have grown a lot. How we have been accepted in the past 24 hours. I don’t really feel like I’ve left. There was no unease or anything like that. It was back like I went out of the team yesterday and came back today,” Warner said.

(Inputs from nine.com.au.)