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Pat Cummins press conference live updates: Australian cricket captain speaks about Usman Khawaja’s ‘sandpapergate’ claims

Cummins speaks about allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident 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.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 13, 2026, 12:12 AM UTC
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  • 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.
  • I got asked all the questions, answered them all fairly.

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?

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