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Warner backs Khawaja's comments about ball-tampering scandal

Global Published 10 November 2026, 08:12 · archived 10 Nov 2026

David Warner said on Monday that former Australia teammate Usman Khawaja’s comments that the entire team had been aware of the plan to tamper with the ball during a 2018 tour ​of South Africa were “100 percent accurate”. Warner and fellow batsmen Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft ‌were banned over the plan to rough up the ball with sandpaper during the third test at Newlands in Cape Town. In an excerpt of his autobiography released on Saturday, Khawaja said “open, lighthearted discussions” about tampering were not confined to ​batters, bowlers or staff but extended throughout the team. On Sunda...

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