Pat Cummins to address media on sandpaper scandal
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 10 reports
- Momentum
- New
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 4034 stories, and number 189 of 1118 in Sport.Part of a bigger story
Usman Khawaja: 24 developments since Sat 7 Nov.Related
Pat Cummins spotted in heated conversation with wife Becky amid Sandpaper controversy (shares Pat Cummins and Sandpaper)
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When you light a fuse and everything explodes, don’t try and blame others.
The Independent didn’t include a summary, so this is 7NEWS’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Pat Cummins
Patrick James Cummins is an Australian international cricketer who plays for the Australia national team in all three formats, captaining the team in both Test and One Day International cricket. He is right-armed pace bowler.4
The bigger story: Usman Khawaja
24 developments since Sat 7 Nov.
- Usman Khawaja reveals he wanted entire team to come clean over Sandpapergate in Cape Town 2018
8 newsrooms. Linked by Usman Khawaja, scandal, knew, ball, tampering
- The only winner out of Khawaja’s bombshell is the saga’s villain
1 newsroom. Linked by Khawaja, bombshell
- Cam Bancroft: WA coach Beau Casson says opener will ‘let his bat do the talking’ amid sandpaper storm
2 newsrooms. Linked by Khawaja, bombshell
- Warner starts fresh Sandpapergate row after Hick rejects Khawaja's claims
15 newsrooms. Linked by Usman Khawaja, Sandpapergate, ball, tampering, 2018, scandal
- Usman Khawaja opens up on reasons and timing for sandpaper revelation, says he didn’t want to “go to war”
1 newsroom. Linked by Usman Khawaja, sandpaper
- Usman Khawaja reveals why he waited eight years to make bombshell Sandpapergate claims that rocked Aussie cricket: 'He talked me out of it'
1 newsroom. Linked by Usman Khawaja, Sandpapergate, bombshell
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 10
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 10
First with it: 7NEWS, 44 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: 7NEWS, The West Australian, PerthNow, The Nightly (all Seven West Media); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Reports
- 10
- Over
- 2.3 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1.5 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 10:54am AEDT | 7NEWS | 1 |
| 11:38am AEDT | The Independent | 2 |
| 12:24pm AEDT | The Sydney Morning Herald | 3 |


