Australische cricketspelers zoals Mitch Marsh en Pat Cummins staan voor een spervuur aan vragen na nieuwe onthullingen in het autobiografische boek van Usman Khawaja. Khawaja bespreekt in zijn boek het roemruchte balschandaal uit 2018 in Zuid-Afrika en roept op tot collectieve verantwoordelijkheid. Hierdoor laaien de discussies over de betrokkenheid van het team bij het gebruik van schuurpapier weer hevig op.
One-day international captain Mitch Marsh will face media this weekRed ball captain Pat Cummins also expected to face questioningThere is still more to tell about Australian cricket’s ball-tampering controversy according to Usman Khawaja, beyond what is included in his book, as his former teammates steel themselves for their reckoning with a dismayed and disappointed cricket community.Khawaja wrote in his book Sabr, out on Tuesday, that he urged his teammates to accept collective responsibility for the incident in a 21-page chapter that has resuscitated calls for players – including Test captain Pat Cummins – to address if they had any knowledge about the use of sandpaper to help the ball swing on the 2018 tour of South Africa. Continue reading...