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Sandpapergate: Pat Cummins dismisses Usman Khawaja's claims as '100 per cent wrong' and 'nonsense'

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Newsrooms: 15
Last 3 hours: 17 reports
Momentum: Steady

Reports per hour, last 24 hours

How the coverage splits

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More newsrooms than 98% of the past week’s 4241 stories, and number 46 of 1989 in News.

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Usman Khawaja: 28 developments since Sat 7 Nov.

Australian Test cricket captain Pat Cummins rubbishes Usman Khawaja's ball tampering claims in a long and passionate press conference.

The Athletic didn’t include a summary, so this is ABC Sport’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

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The bigger story: Usman Khawaja

28 developments since Sat 7 Nov.

Sat, 7 Nov, 8:10am AEDT
Khawaja: Entire Australia team knew about ball-tampering scandal
1 newsroom
Sat, 7 Nov, 8:55am AEDT
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
Sun, 8 Nov, 5:00am AEDT
The only winner out of Khawaja’s bombshell is the saga’s villain
1 newsroom. Linked by Khawaja, bombshell
Sun, 8 Nov, 7:10am AEDT
Cam Bancroft: WA coach Beau Casson says opener will ‘let his bat do the talking’ amid sandpaper storm
2 newsrooms. Linked by Khawaja, bombshell
Sun, 8 Nov, 12:33pm AEDT
Warner starts fresh Sandpapergate row after Hick rejects Khawaja's claims
15 newsrooms. Linked by Usman Khawaja, Sandpapergate, ball, tampering, 2018, scandal
Sun, 8 Nov, 1:12pm AEDT
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
Sun, 8 Nov, 4:00pm AEDT
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
Sun, 8 Nov, 4:55pm AEDT
Usman Khawaja says Steve Smith talked him out of sharing blame for sandpaper plot

The story so far

OfficialEmerging

Reports: 30
Newsrooms and sources: 15
Last 3 hours: 17
Last 24 hours

Emerging: new in the last few hours and still picking up reports (17 in the last three hours, 13 in the three before).

First with it: The Guardian, 12 min before anyone else.

From Cricket Australia directly.

Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: Brisbane Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, WAtoday (all Nine); PerthNow, The West Australian, The Nightly, 7NEWS (all Seven West Media).

Time	Newsroom	Total
9:26am AEDT	The Guardian	1
9:37am AEDT	Daily Mail	2
9:46am AEDT	Brisbane Times	3
10:05am AEDT	PerthNow	4
10:16am AEDT	CNA	5
10:21am AEDT	The Independent	6
10:32am AEDT	Yahoo Sports	7
10:32am AEDT	Sporting News Australia	8
10:47am AEDT	BBC Sport	9
10:50am AEDT	Sky Sports	10
11:39am AEDT	ABC News (Australia)	11
11:51am AEDT	Australian Financial Review	12
11:56am AEDT	The Times of India	13
12:28pm AEDT	Cricket Australia	14
12:33pm AEDT	The Athletic	15

Time	Source	Total
9:26am AEDT	The Guardian	1
9:37am AEDT	Daily Mail	2
9:46am AEDT	Brisbane Times	3
9:46am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	4
9:46am AEDT	The Age	5
9:46am AEDT	WAtoday	6
10:05am AEDT	PerthNow	7
10:05am AEDT	The West Australian	8
10:16am AEDT	CNA	9
10:21am AEDT	The Independent	10
10:31am AEDT	The Guardian	11
10:32am AEDT	Yahoo Sports	12
10:32am AEDT	Sporting News Australia	13
10:47am AEDT	BBC Sport	14
10:50am AEDT	Sky Sports	15
10:55am AEDT	The Independent	16
11:21am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	17
11:21am AEDT	The Age	18
11:21am AEDT	Brisbane Times	19
11:21am AEDT	WAtoday	20
11:39am AEDT	ABC News (Australia)	21
11:42am AEDT	The Nightly	22
11:42am AEDT	The West Australian	23
11:42am AEDT	PerthNow	24
11:51am AEDT	Australian Financial Review	25
11:53am AEDT	The Sydney Morning Herald	26
11:56am AEDT	The Times of India	27
12:28pm AEDT	Cricket Australia	28
12:33pm AEDT	The Athletic	29
1:23pm AEDT	7NEWS	30

Sandpapergate: Pat Cummins dismisses Usman Khawaja's claims as '100 per cent wrong' and 'nonsense'

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