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Camera IconBancroft was suspended for nine months for his role in the ball tampering scandal. Credit: Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\nWestern Australia coach Beau Casson says Cam Bancroft will \u201clet his bat do the talking\u201d after the old wounds of the 2018 sandpaper scandal were dramatically reopened by his former Test teammate Usman Khawaja.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, it was revealed Khawaja\u2019s forthcoming autobiography contained bombshell allegations Australia\u2019s entire team was aware of plans to tamper with the ball on their tour of South Africa in 2018.<\/p>\n
His claims contradict the findings of an investigation conducted by Cricket Australia at the time, which found only Bancroft, captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner had knowledge of the plot.<\/p>\n
Bancroft was captured by broadcast cameras attempting to hide a piece of sandpaper on the field during the third Test of an ill-tempered series in Cape Town. He was handed a nine-month suspension from international and State cricket by CA after their probe concluded.<\/p>\n
When asked if he was disappointed on Bancroft\u2019s behalf that the incident had once again come back into the spotlight eight years after it played out, Casson remained diplomatic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation was a long time ago,\u201d Casson said.<\/p>\n
Camera IconBancroft was suspended for nine months for his role in the ball tampering scandal. Credit: Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s keen to move on and let his bat do the talking and that\u2019s what we\u2019re promoting him to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s handled himself with distinction in that space. I don\u2019t see that changing anytime soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t control everything . . . there\u2019s a lot of things you can\u2019t control that get put out there, and it\u2019s just about what you do moving forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way he\u2019s handled it over the past couple of weeks and the years gone by speaks volumes about the way he\u2019s done that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The West Australian made a request to WA Cricket to speak with Bancroft at the conclusion of the game, which was turned down.<\/p>\n
Only hours after Khawaja\u2019s revelations sparked a worldwide media storm, the 33-year-old lined up for WA in their 50-over tour match against England at the WACA Ground, making 32 in a 92-run defeat.<\/p>\n
Casson pointed to a brilliant 186 the opener compiled in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia last week, which was played concurrently with Australia\u2019s return to Newlands, as an example of his ability to not let off-field events affect his on-field performances.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just rapt to be able to have Cameron scoring runs for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Western Australia side is a far better side when Cameron\u2019s playing the way he did in Adelaide.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo doubt he\u2019ll continue to do that. He leaves nothing to chance, he trains hard, not only technically, but physically.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boys really enjoy having him in the change room and I\u2019m no different. He\u2019s a senior player within this group and he certainly sets the example of how to go about it as a professional cricketer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australia coach Beau Casson says Cam Bancroft will \u201clet his bat do the talking\u201d after the old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-956644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}