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

Cummins speaks about allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident ‘Complete and utter nonsense’: Australia captain Pat Cummins hits back at Khawaja ‘sandpapergate’ claims Cummins says there’s a ‘proper way to do things’ Cummins says he believes there was a proper way to handle the sandpaper incident, pointing to the Cricket Australia investigation shortly afterwards. There’s a very proper way to do things and improve. I think that investigation was a proper way to do it. Everyone was asked in the circumstances about a game very quickly after.

So that’s for CA. I think you can maybe argue whether the judgements were fair, but what can you do? I got asked all the questions, answered them all fairly. That’s my story, so I think he’s wrong.

The details really matter in that difference. So perhaps there was conversations with Cameron Bancroft around taking sandpaper out and how to do it. That doesn’t mean that everyone in that dressing room knew what was going on. ..