Joe Root shuts down Usman Khawaja's claim that 'the whole world' was ball tampering after Australian's explosive Sandpapergate confession
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 3:12am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3605 stories, and number 171 of 1055 in Sport.Part of a bigger story
Cricket Australia: 8 developments since Sat 7 Nov.
1File photo: Joe Root
England's Joe Root says he does not believe ball-tampering was rampant across the international game at the time of Australia's 'Sandpapergate' scandal as he chose not to pile in on his Ashes rivals following Usman Khawaja's explosive claims.
Daily Mail didn’t include a summary, so this is Sky Sports’s, from its report on the same story.3
The bigger story: Cricket Australia
8 developments since Sat 7 Nov.
- Mitchell Johnson: Usman Khawaja revelations don’t look good for the bowlers after they denied any knowledge
1 newsroom. Linked by Usman Khawaja, bowler
- Khawaja addresses backlash from explosive claims
2 newsrooms. Linked by Usman Khawaja, explosive
- Cricket Australia’s culture reviewer breaks silence on sandpapergate
11 newsrooms. Linked by Mitchell, denies, knowledge
- Star Australian bowler Mitchell Starc maintains bowlers knew nothing about Sandpapergate
1 newsroom. Linked by Mitchell, bowler
- Cricket Australia will not reopen 2018 case
1 newsroom. Linked by Cricket Australia, reopen, 2018
- Cricket Australia wants to move on from ball tampering saga but its equivocation has the opposite effect | Jonathan Horn
1 newsroom. Linked by Cricket Australia, ball, tampering, saga
Joe Root shuts down Usman Khawaja's claim that 'the whole world' was ball tampering after Australian's explosive Sandpapergate confession
You’re here3 newsrooms
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1
First with it: Sky Sports, 16 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 2 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 2 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00pm AEDT | Sky Sports | 1 |
| 6:16pm AEDT | The Independent | 2 |
| 7:57pm AEDT | Daily Mail | 3 |
Bigger than 95% of Sport stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 2 hr; a typical Sport story that gets there takes 7 hr.
Where it’s heading
Probably peakedStories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.
Likely 3 to 4 newsrooms by 3:12am AEDT (3 most likely), and 3 to 5 by Thu, 12 Nov, 9:12pm AEDT. 3 now.
| When | Likely range | Most likely |
|---|---|---|
| Now | 3 | 3 |
| In 1 hours (10:12pm AEDT) | 3 to 3 | 3 |
| In 3 hours (12:12am AEDT) | 3 to 4 | 3 |
| In 6 hours (3:12am AEDT) | 3 to 4 | 3 |
| In 12 hours (9:12am AEDT) | 3 to 5 | 3 |
| In 24 hours (9:12pm AEDT) | 3 to 5 | 4 |



