LIVE: Pat Cummins rejects Usman Khawaja’s ‘sandpapergate’ claims | ABC NEWS
Australia Test cricket captain Pat Cummins has emphatically denied any knowledge of sandpaper being used in the 2018 Test against South Africa in Cape Town.
Former Test batsman Usman Khawaja claimed in his new book that ‘everyone’ involved in that series had knowledge of ball tampering.
Cummins, who bowled in that series, has unequivocally refuted that in a press conference.
“When he says ‘we all knew’, if that he means we knew sandpaper was going out on the field, he’s 100 per cent wrong,” Cummins said.
“I said that consistently for the last eight years. I did not know that was happening.”
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