Pat Cummins: Australia captain describes Usman Khawaja’s ball tampering allegations as ‘nonsense’
- Newsrooms
- 8
- Last 3 hours
- 17 reports
- Momentum
- New
0 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 10 to 11 newsrooms by 4:25pm AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 95% of the past week’s 4206 stories, and number 17 of 1012 in Sport.Related
(shares Pat Cummins and Sandpapergate)
1Australia captain Pat Cummins has launched a stunning rebuke of Usman Khawaja’s account of the sandpaper scandal, describing his former teammate’s story as “complete and utter nonsense”.
In The Nightly’s words.2
The story so far
8 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 34
- Newsrooms and sources
- 8
- Last 3 hours
- 17
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (17 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: 7NEWS, 44 min before anyone else.
Reported by 8 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: 7NEWS, The West Australian, PerthNow, The Nightly, Canberra CityNews (all Seven West Media); The Independent and Yahoo Sports (the same headline); The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, WAtoday (all Nine); ABC News (Australia), ABC Sport (all ABC (Australia)).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from


