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Smith said he had learned of the plan when he overheard a conversation in the team's dressing room at Newlands.
The commercial starts with a voice overlay of Smith's tearful apology when he fronted the media after the incident.
Smith and Warner were banned for a year from international and state cricket for their involvement in a ball-tampering scandal and still have another six months to serve.
'They (Australia) are the only team I've played against my whole life that I've actually disliked,' Moeen was quoted as saying by The Times newspaper.
Cricket Australia has come under pressure from the Australian Cricketers' Association to end the bans following the release of the Longstaff review, which laid some of the blame for the Cape Town scandal at the door of the board.
The the Australian Cricketers' Association has always contested the bans were unduly harsh and had pushed for all Smith, Warner and Bancroft to be able to resume first class cricket immediately.
Smith and Warner were handed the bans by CA after the ball-tampering scandal earlier this year and are not scheduled to resume playing at the top level until the end of March 2019.
It all started with an ESPNcricinfo poll on Twitter where the cricket website paired 20 top players -- former and current -- with each other and asked fans to pick one contest they would love to watch.
Smith recently also took to social media to share a photo where he was seen taking an ice bath after a long time.
Stokes, hero of England's World Cup triumph last year, is going through a tough phase. He pulled out of the three-match series against Pakistan in August before the second Test to be with his father, diagnosed with brain cancer.
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