Pat Cummins hits back over ‘sandpapergate’ claims

Australia test cricket captain Pat Cummins has described Usman Khawaja’s claims that the entire team knew about using sandpaper in the 2018 ball-tampering scandal as “utter nonsense” and “100 per cent wrong”.

Cummins held a lengthy press conference on Friday to address Khawaja’s claims, made in his autobiography.

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