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

Cummins speaks about allegations in Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident ‘There was no master plan around using illegal methods’ Pat Cummins: There was no master plan around using illegal methods. I think that’s maybe something that hasn’t been spoken about enoug

Cummins speaks about allegations in Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident ‘There was no master plan around using illegal methods’ Pat Cummins: There was no master plan around using illegal methods. I think that’s maybe something that hasn’t been spoken about enough. People assume you have gone from very legal methods to suddenly taking sandpaper and then there must have been some huge master plan.

That is not the case … At that stage, you know, even the umpires had a look. We didn’t know it had been altered with sandpaper. Balls get roughened up every time we play.

So, you know, whether that’s from a foreign object or something that’s totally legal and part of the game. Sometimes it’s hard to know. But out there in the field I did not see anything on the ball.

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