Seeing it's the off season, I'd love to know what everyone thinks of what is currently happening in Australian Cricket.
Current Aussie captain Pat Cummings spent more than a hour answering questions today about the latest saga.
Was Usman right in bringing it up 8yrs later? Or is it in time to sell his book?
Did the team know what was going on or did the coach?Why has Warner all of a sudden spoken out?
Things are gonna get messy. If not already.
Im leaning towards Pat Cummings being the honest one.
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Who'd want a friend like Usman?
You’ve got rocks in your head if you think Cummins is a cleanskin.
Why haven’t you considered the bowlers’ own standards of friendship, given their inaction and silence towards the three who took the blame for the whole team?
Punishment has already been dished out. Case closed.
Is it possible that his inclusion in the Australian test team when his form was not worthy of selection was for no reason other than to prolong his claims?
This story will come out again in the coming years. Some people can't live a normal life hiding things they think should be known. If Usman needed to get this off his chest for whatever reason, that's what he should have done. I would have preferred he did it in a different way though. Possibly a private meeting with cricket Australia and the other players in that side would have been better. Otherwise, he could of said that he knew about the sandpaper and would be surprised if others if not all in the side also knew about it. Unless there was a team meeting where everyone was told about the plan to use sandpaper on the ball, Usman shouldn't be saying that everyone knew what was happening.
I would think that everyone knowing what was happening is more believable than only the 3 punished players knowing about it.
One player who rarely gets a mention is Tim Paine who was given the captaincy after the suspension of Steve Smith. As Paine was the wicket-keeper, he would have handled and looked at the ball more than any other players. If he failed to notice the ball changing its appearance, he failed to do his job.
Case closed. I have more admiration for Cummins than I did before when he jumped on some political bandwagons. He showed a strong attitude and spoke well. Lets be honest here - would this crap have been done in the Border, Tubby Taylor and Waugh era? Ha no way. Khawaja would have been booted.
Khawaja spent his time playing cricket for NSW/ QLD and Australia and became IMO a polarising piece of work. He always seemed to like to whine and then he also had the Aussie team warpped around him due to the no grog after winning on stage / sponsors (VB) and then the shit had the audacity to push his political crap about Palestine - who we do not give a fig about. He should have been sacked then and told to get on Greta's boat.
He would not have had these chances in Islamabad where he was from. He was also lucky to play test cricket for so long. The icing on the cake is the racism reference too about him not be considered for test captain after the SA sandpaper issues. He is a self appointed victim and should be in GAZA fighting for his so called mates. But no. He is happy to throw shit from the sidelines. Piece of work. He can fck off.
Oh and then there was his brother.
Nobody outside that team from 2018 truly knows if the truth is closer to Khawaja's version or to Cummins' version.
What we do know is that it's likely to dominate discussion all summer. Cummins's line where he said he and Khawaja were friends but friends aren't "casual" with peoples' lives and reputation was telling. Not friends any more! What will be interesting is whether Cricket Australia flexes its muscle and we don't see Khawaja on any of the commentary teams.
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