Cape Town – Usman Khawaja has alleged that South Africa also tampered with the ball during the infamous 2018 Test series.
In his autobiography Sabr, Khawaja claims a senior Proteas player revealed that three members of the South African team had been working on the ball to generate reverse swing.
“According to a senior player in the South African team who told me this long after the series, they’d had three guys working on the ball and getting it to reverse. I won’t divulge how exactly they did it, but after I found out, I realised they were just smarter and cagier than us.”
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The allegations emerged amid renewed controversy over Australia’s own ball-tampering scandal, which erupted when Cameron Bancroft was caught using sandpaper on the ball during the third Test at Newlands.
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Khawaja has also claimed the entire Australian team knew about the plot, contradicting Cricket Australia’s investigation, which found that only Bancroft, Steve Smith and David Warner had prior knowledge.
Cricket Australia chief Todd Greenberg has ruled out reopening the investigation despite Khawaja’s revelations and Warner’s public support for his account.
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