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Khawaja reveals two failed attempts to come clean over sandpaper
- Former Test batsman Usman Khawaja claims the entire Australian team knew about the 2018 ball-tampering incident during the Newlands Test, stating "It was all of us" to reject the notion that only three players bore responsibility.
- Television cameras caught Cameron Bancroft using sandpaper to alter the ball during the 2018 Cape Town Test, prompting Cricket Australia to suspend Bancroft for nine months while Steve Smith and David Warner each received 12-month bans.
- In his upcoming memoir *Sabr*, Khawaja argues the dressing room should have accepted collective responsibility for the scandal, expressing frustration that the complete truth had not emerged despite eight years having passed since the incident.
- Australia captain Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, and Josh Hazlewood denied knowing about the tactic in 2021; these players are currently rested for this month's white-ball series against England, avoiding immediate questioning on the subject.
- Khawaja believes Smith, Warner, and Bancroft deserve justice, noting none of the three want to be the first to speak; he decided to reveal the truth because he feels it is the right thing to do.
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I don’t know a bowler who hasn’t licked, flicked, scratched or slobbered on a cricket ball
Former South Africa captain Faf du Plessis has said he thought the punishment for Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft was over the top. He has a point.
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