Warner makes bombshell sandpapergate claim involving Hazlewood, Starc and Lyon
David Warner has accused Cricket Australia of a cover-up of the sandpapergate scandal.
In another explosive escalation of the saga that rocked Australian sport, Warner has taken to Instagram to claim the governing body did not interview Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc or Nathan Lyon as part of their investigation in the days after the Cape Town Test of 2018.
Warner made the claim early on Saturday afternoon, a day after he accused Test captain Pat Cummins of throwing Usman Khawaja under the bus after the release of his memoir, Sabr.
“As far as I am aware, CA did not interview Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc or Nathan Lyon in their 2018 investigation,” Warner posted to Instagram.
“If that’s correct, then how can CA push the idea that the bowlers didn’t know?
“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. That stinks of a cover up.”
This masthead has reached out to representatives of Hazlewood, Starc, Lyon and Cricket Australia for comment.
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