Khawaja refuses to name Aussie ball tamperers

The publisher of Usman Khawaja's autobiography has denied his promotional tour has been cancelled but says there have been "adjustments" to the schedule. Khawaja insisted in the interview that he wanted his former team-mates to take collective responsibility as a team, but did not want to be responsible for a "witch hunt" regarding specific players.

"The book tour is 100% still going ahead, we've just had to make some adjustments this week, but no major cancellation of the tour at all," said Khawaja's publisher Penguin in a statement to ABC. The fall-out from the series led to bans for captain Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner and fellow batter Cameron Bancroft, but a Cricket Australia investigation found the national side's bowling attack were unaware of the ball-tampering.

Australia's attack in the contentious third Test - Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc - remain fixtures in the national side. "It's never been for me about pointing fingers and saying, 'he did this, he said that'.