Pat Cummins addresses ball-tampering claims in marathon press conference – as it happened
Australia Test captain Pat Cummins dismissed his former team-mate Usman Khawaja's claims as "utter nonsense" after the recently retired batter said in his autobiography that the whole side were aware of ball-tampering that took place on their 2018 tour of South Africa.
Key points
- This blog is now closed ‘Complete and utter nonsense’: Australia captain Pat Cummins hits back at Khawaja ‘sandpapergate’ claims Cummins says there’s a ‘proper way to do things’ Cummins says he believes there was a proper way to handle the sandpaper incident, pointing to the Cricket Australia investigation shortly afterwards.
- That doesn’t mean that everyone in that dressing room knew what was going on.
- Everyone was asked in the circumstances about a game very quickly after.
So perhaps there was conversations with Cameron Bancroft around taking sandpaper out and how to do it.
I think you can maybe argue whether the judgements were fair, but what can you do?
Additional details
- I got asked all the questions, answered them all fairly.
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