Cricket Australia have responded to Usman Khawaja’s revelations about Sandpapergate by confirming that an investigation into their investigation of the ball tampering would not be in the benefit of Cricket Australia.
According to Khawaja, the entire team knew about the use of sandpaper on the ball in Cape Town. A version of events that has been backed up by David Warner.
If true, Cricket Australia has some explaining to do on how they failed to establish this basic fact and essentially put the full weight of the law down on rookie Cam Bancroft.
A source close to Cricket Australia told The Times,
“They aren’t about to make themselves look like gooses are they? They are happy with the token punishments handed to Smith and Warner and will continue to make sure they frame it as a Bancroft problem, not an entire cultural problem”
No one is shocked by their response, however, with one source telling The Times,
“Would you even believe the findings of a body investigating themselves? I mean, come on, they’d probably find a way to blame Justin Langer”
No doubt about that.
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