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David Warner: Former Opener Says Usman Khawaja '100% Accurate' on Sandpaper Ball Tampering
David Warner backed Khawaja’s account and said Cricket Australia’s 2018 inquiry was rushed and botched.
- In his new memoir *Sabr*, former Test cricketer Usman Khawaja claims the entire Australian team and coaching staff knew about the 2018 sandpaper scandal, stating, "It was all of us."
- Khawaja writes that the plot was first discussed during the second Test at Port Elizabeth, leading to the "discovery of sandpaper as an effective agent" to alter the ball.
- While Khawaja urged the team to "take this as a team" in the dressing room, bowlers Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Nathan Lyon previously denied any knowledge of foreign substances.
- Cricket Australia banned David Warner and Steve Smith for 12 months, while Cameron Bancroft received a nine-month suspension for his role in the scandal.
- Cummins, Starc, and Hazlewood have been rested from this month's white-ball series against England, meaning they will avoid immediate questioning regarding the renewed claims in Khawaja's book.
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Warner backs Khawaja on sandpaper scandal, says CA probe was botched
Cricket Australia says it remains comfortable with its 2018 integrity findings, with Khawaja’s memoir Sabr due on sale on 10 November. David Warner has said Usman Khawaja’s account of Australia’s 2018 ball-tampering scandal is “100% accurate”, and called Cricket Australia’s (CA) investigation into the affair “rushed and botched”. The scandal broke during the third Test […]
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