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Pat Cummins press conference live updates: Australian cricket captain to speak about Usman Khawaja’s ‘Sandpapergate’ claims

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Guardian Australia · Australia · Oceania

Cummins to speak about allegations in Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incidentMitchell Starc’s statement: ‘we weren’t aware of things being taken on the field’Earlier this week, Mitchell Starc denied claims made in Khawaja’s book.As far as our statement said, we weren’t aware of things being taken on the field, that’s where I’ll leave it. We weren’t aware anything was taken on to the field to be tampered with. We saw [the sandpaper] on the big screen in Cape Town.As far as the book is concerned, I haven’t read it. I probably won’t read it. So that’s for Usman to elaborate on. Cont

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