Australian cricket great David Warner has publicly accused Cricket Australia of a “cover up” during its investigation into the 2018 sandpaper scandal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his second explosive social media post on the matter, Warner claimed the governing body never interviewed three of Australia’s frontline bowlers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“As far as I am aware, CA did not interview Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc or Nathan Lyon in their 2018 investigation,” he wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If that is correct, then how can CA push the idea that the bowlers didn’t know?<\/p>\n
“It looks like they had decided who they wanted to blame from the very beginning, ran a shoddy investigation to serve the purpose and now they want to maintain the false narrative that the bowlers had no idea.<\/p>\n
“That stinks of a cover up.”<\/p>\n
The bombshell allegations come just a day after Warner accused captain Pat Cummins of throwing Usman Khawaja under the bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cummins rejected Khawaja’s claims that the entire team knew<\/a> about the South African Test series ball-tampering scandal, accusing his former teammate of being “casual” with other people’s lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I think Usman actually says things that are far more serious than (ball tampering allegations). He says that I and others were architects of a scheme to ball tamper with sandpaper,” Cummins said during a lengthy press conference at Cricket Central on Friday.<\/p>\n “That’s complete and utter nonsense.<\/p>\n “When he says ‘we all knew’, if that he means we knew sandpaper was going out on the field, he’s 100 per cent wrong.<\/p>\n “I said that consistently for the last eight years. I did not know that was happening.”<\/p>\n Speaking on Fox Cricket later the same day, Warner said he stood by Khawaja and “felt for him”<\/a> following Cummins’ denial.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I feel that the captain threw Ussie under the bus today. I\u2019m very very disappointed about that,” Warner said.<\/p>\n “I still stick by Ussie and what he said in the book.”<\/p>\n The former Test opening batsmen also revealed the lasting impact on himself, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft, who were all heavily penalised by Cricket Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n “All three of us have paid a big price in this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n “I haven\u2019t spoken about it in eight years, but at the end of the day we have to live with these consequences daily. We\u2019ve been served a life punishment.<\/p>\n “We\u2019ve copped abuse.”<\/p>\n When asked whether he believed there should be further inquiries, Warner admitted the previous investigation was “botched”.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Some of the questions were challenging in a way that it felt like it was being planted on us and we just had to move on and accept responsibility for the three of us,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n The topic has become a major talking point eight years on following the release of Khawaja’s book Sabr<\/a>, in which he alleges at least one bowler knew of the plot.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It was all of us. Not the batters, not the bowlers, not the staff. All of us,” Khawaja told the Sydney Morning Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n Warner quickly took to Instagram to back up the claims on Monday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It’s 100 per cent accurate, what you’ve said,” he said in a video.<\/p>\n “Uzzie, I throw my full support behind you. I thank you for everything you’ve done.”<\/p>\n Read related topics:Sandpapergate Scandal<\/a>Sport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cricket great David Warner has publicly accused Cricket Australia of a “cover up” during its investigation into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[405718,45986,531610,531589,531594,531608,531597,413577,531604,531602,376594,376637,7814,318760,406933,5729,395813,147587,531583,64,63,35086,531591,7779,531593,16557,163573,485905,32092,5794,531587,531605,740,18587,529299,142517,122703,18754,380959,378950,12548,39598,531609,520318,253403,430789,530307,458813,531581,531590,530228,44227,531579,529316,531598,1871,36045,14477,31024,13052,417078,29547,531582,531603,44,376628,531584,185072,1948,20246,531595,19397,525330,46907,588,35235,531600,531611,531601,384457,531586,376865,529746,378196,420993,380842,379738,215379,529296,531580,377453,531596,378701,378979,474324,444901,376785,407382,531599,471281,394985,379649,531592,425569,146597,416091,378960,482188,531585,531588,531606,24080,50188,70541,529792,531607,42727],"class_list":["post-964033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-s-claims","tag-45986","tag-2018-investigation","tag-a-big-price","tag-a-cover","tag-a-lengthy-press-conference","tag-a-life-punishment","tag-a-major-talking-point","tag-a-scheme","tag-a-shoddy-investigation","tag-a-video","tag-a-way","tag-abuse","tag-afternoon","tag-all-three","tag-allegations","tag-an-instagram-post","tag-architects","tag-at-least-one-bowler","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-cricket","tag-australian-cricket-great-david-warner","tag-ball","tag-book-sabr","tag-ca","tag-cameron-bancroft","tag-captain-pat-cummins","tag-cent","tag-claims","tag-coach-darren-lehmann","tag-complete-and-utter-nonsense","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-australia","tag-cricket-central","tag-cummins","tag-darren-lehmann","tag-david-warner","tag-denial","tag-eight-years","tag-fox-cricket","tag-friday","tag-frontline-bowlers","tag-further-inquiries","tag-getty","tag-great-david-warner","tag-his-autobiography-sabr","tag-his-former-teammate","tag-his-second-explosive-social-media-post","tag-his-skin-colour","tag-its-investigation","tag-josh-hazlewood","tag-just-a-day","tag-khawaja","tag-later-the-same-day","tag-leadership","tag-lives","tag-mitchell-marsh","tag-mitchell-starc","tag-monday","tag-my-full-support","tag-nathan-lyon","tag-new-bombshell-claims","tag-new-bombshell-sandpapergate-claims","tag-news","tag-no-idea","tag-not-the-batters","tag-other-people","tag-pat-cummins","tag-picture","tag-players-mitchell-starc","tag-responsibility","tag-sandpaper","tag-saturday","tag-sport","tag-steve-smith","tag-stinks","tag-the-2018","tag-the-2018-sandpaper-scandal","tag-the-allegations","tag-the-bombshell-allegations","tag-the-book","tag-the-bowlers","tag-the-bus","tag-the-captain","tag-the-claims","tag-the-day","tag-the-end","tag-the-entire-team","tag-the-false-narrative","tag-the-field","tag-the-former-test-opening-batsmen","tag-the-governing-body","tag-the-idea","tag-the-last-eight-years","tag-the-lasting-impact","tag-the-matter","tag-the-plot","tag-the-previous-investigation","tag-the-purpose","tag-the-questions","tag-the-release","tag-the-south-african-test-series-ball-tampering-scandal","tag-the-staff","tag-the-sydney-morning-herald","tag-the-three","tag-the-topic","tag-the-very-beginning","tag-their-2018-investigation","tag-these-consequences","tag-three-frontline-bowlers","tag-today","tag-usman","tag-usman-khawaja","tag-ussie","tag-uzzie","tag-warner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964033","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=964033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}