Cummins says Khawaja's book is casual with teammates' reputations

SBS News's press-conference clip captures the Australian captain defending his account of Sandpapergate while saying Khawaja remains a friend.

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Why this story? One of SBS News's most watched videos since yesterday, with 31,384 views.

Pat Cummins denies Usman Khawaja’s sandpapergate claims

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Pat Cummins says his objection to Usman Khawaja's book goes beyond a disagreement about what happened: it concerns the reputations of the people named in it.

"Usman's a friend, but friends aren't casual with each other's lives and reputations," he says in a press-conference clip published by SBS News.

According to SBS, Khawaja's autobiography says the Australian team knew about the use of sandpaper in the 2018 ball-tampering scandal. Cummins rejects that account and denies having helped devise a scheme.

"I did not know that was happening," he says. He describes his position as unchanged over eight years.

The exchange also includes a reporter asking how Khawaja could offer such a different version given their shared history. Cummins responds that some accounts may be true, but argues that Khawaja makes vague leaps where the details matter.

The SBS clip drew about 31,000 views since yesterday. Its focus is Cummins's response, rather than a resolution of the conflicting accounts.

"I support his right to tell a story 100%," Cummins says. "But we have to be accountable for the things that we say and do."

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The press-conference extract was SBS News's most-watched new video since yesterday.

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657,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

318,124,300

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547,912

typical day: 333,982

the video

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34,925

likes

57

comments

13

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1

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