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talkSPORT Cricket revisits Sandpapergate with the culture reviewer

Simon Longstaff joins Jim White and Simon Jordan as the channel posts 15 uploads spanning Australia's unresolved debate and England's ODI defeat.

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1:40Longstaff connects the new claims with rumours he heard while conducting his 2018 culture review.
3:10His review examined underlying cultural causes, rather than establishing individual culpability.
3:26Longstaff says players had been treated as commodities whose only task was to win.
9:15The closing discussion considers reopening the investigation and administrators taking responsibility for acknowledging the truth.

Simon Longstaff draws a distinction that matters to talkSPORT Cricket's busiest new upload: his review examined the culture around Australian cricket, rather than deciding individual culpability.

Speaking to Jim White and Simon Jordan, Longstaff describes a system in which winning had become the players' overriding task. "The players had effectively been reduced to commodities, the only task they had was to win," he says. The discussion follows Usman Khawaja's book claims about wider team knowledge of Sandpapergate, which Pat Cummins disputes.

That interview has drawn about 84,000 views, making it the most watched of the channel's new uploads this week. But the conversation has spread across several programmes. Steve Harmison discusses the subject with Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs, while Robert 'Crash' Craddock joins Harmison and Neil Manthorp on Following On to consider whether Cricket Australia should reopen an investigation.

There is cricket on the field to digest, too. Jarrod Kimber's reaction to England's ODI defeat by Australia is currently attracting views fastest, with Lawrence Booth's discussion of Cummins' response also drawing a substantial early audience.

Across the channel, daily views are running at roughly four times their usual level, although the subscriber total was unchanged over the week. Nearby in size, Beyond23 Cricket Podcast is also having a much busier viewing day than usual. For talkSPORT Cricket, the fresh attention is concentrated on a distinctly radio-shaped offering: different guests, different programmes and plenty of time to examine the same difficult question.

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