Players union chiefs are to hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday to explore potential ways they could support suspended Hobart Hurricanes cricketer Emily Smith, according to reports.

The 24-year-old last week copped a one-year ban, with nine months suspended, for posting a team line-up on her Instagram account, an hour before it was officially released by her team for the WBBL clash with Sydney Thunder.

The wicketkeeper's prank, supposedly intended to lightheartedly highlight her position well down the batting order in a match which was later washed out, was still seen by Cricket Australia as breaking their strict Anti-Corruption Code.

Emily Smith of the Hurricanes in action during the Women's Big Bash League match between the Sydney Sixers and the Hobart (Getty)

As a result, Smith has been denied playing in any form of cricket for at least three months, meaning she'll sit out her team's remaining WBBL and WNCL fixtures this season, a penalty the Australian Players Association say is too excessive.

The APA have suggested Smith should have received a fully suspended sentence instead, but have also refuted claims they urged the player to accept the suspension and move on.

The union, keen to illustrate that corruption was not a factor in Smith's actions, has now sent a document to its members countrywide featuring the options they will present to board members in Tuesday's emergency meeting with the view of mitigating her punishment, Newscorp reports.

"All of the facts regarding the evidence; the nature of the process Emily faced; the issue of proportionality of sentence; whether culpability was singular or joint; the full extent of the ACA's unending representation over many weeks; and the views of the Membership as currently being expressed to all of us," the leaked ACA document reads.

"One fact which is especially important which has been accepted universally - is that Emily's actions had no intent of, or association with, any form of corruption whatsoever."

Hobart Hurricanes cricketer Emily Smith copped a one-year ban, with nine months suspended, for posting a team line-up on her Instagram account before a WBBL clash.

One of these measures could be to broker a possible meeting with CA officials to and take up Smith's cause directly.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan was scathing of the ACA while commenting on the issue during the first Test in the men's cricket, saying that they had hung her "out to dry".

"The players association, I believe, should've got behind her and said, 'I'm sorry, that is far too strict for just a naive mistake'," Vaughan said on Fox Cricket.

"I think she's been hung out to dry."

Spin king Shane Warne also weighed in on the controversy alongside Vaughan, saying he felt for the Hurricanes wicketkeeper, and that the punishment was too "harsh".

"I think it's too harsh a penalty for that, she should've been allowed to play but I think she should be put on probation," Warne said.

"Say, 'If you do that again, you're going to get rubbed out for a year but cop your fine, you're allowed to play.'"