Former Australian captain Mark Taylor. Credit:AAP

Former Australian captain Mark Taylor will play a key role on a Cricket Australia sub-committee addressing what shapes as a sobering report into the culture of Australian cricket.

Fairfax Media can reveal Taylor is on a four-person committee of CA directors set to analyse a wide-ranging report conducted by The Ethics Centre's Simon Longstaff in wake of the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa. Fellow CA directors Michael Kasprowicz, the former Australian fast bowler, Earl Eddings, the managing director of The Riskcom Group, and Jacqui Hey, the former managing director of Ericsson Australia and New Zealand, will also sit on the sub-committee.

Insiders have conceded there was a "disconnect" between head office and the team, which led to an overly aggressive side too often taking to the field knowing there would be little, if any, recrimination under then coach Darren Lehmann besides the odd "ticking off".

The Longstaff review is running concurrently with a report into the culture of the team itself, conducted by former Test batsman Rick McCosker. However, there has been a push by some in the industry to have the McCosker review broadened to include a look at all levels of the sport.