Sandpapergate
The 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal, also known as Sandpapergate, was a cricket cheating scandal surrounding the Australian national cricket team. In March 2018, during the third Test match against South Africa at Newlands in Cape Town, Cameron Bancroft was caught by television cameras trying to rough up one side of the ball with sandpaper to make it swing in flight. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stories this week
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Coverage this week
Separate stories naming Sandpapergate, by day.
| Day | Stories |
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| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 4 |
| Sun | 3 |
| Mon | 1 |
| Tue | 6 |
| Today | 7 |
0.7% of Sport stories in the last 24 hours, up from 0.2% over the days before.
Storylines
Today
- Joe Root refuses to wade into Australia’s ‘sandpapergate’ ball tampering row
First: Sky Sports, 16 min before anyone else
- Sandpapergate row: Usman Khawaja cancels media interviews after Pat Cummins question
First: The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 min before anyone else
- David Warner backs Usman Khawaja’s ‘Sandpapergate' claims: '100 per cent accurate'
First: The Guardian, 3 hr 41 min before anyone else
- Warner jabs former Australian coach Lehmann over Sandpapergate sanctions
- Legends urge Australia to 'move on' from Sandpapergate amid opposing claims
- Cricket Australia will not have another Sandpapergate investigation
First: ABC Sport, 50 min before anyone else
- Independent umpire needs to adjudicate on Sandpapergate
First: Australian Financial Review
Yesterday
- Revealed: What’s really in Usman Khawaja’s book
First: Brisbane Times, 4 hr 53 min before anyone else
- ‘Fans have not moved on’: Clarke joins Sandpapergate storm as pressure mounts on CA
- Cricket Australia, Usman Khawaja address criticism over sandpaper scandal
First: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 hr 17 min before anyone else
- Star Australian bowler Mitchell Starc maintains bowlers knew nothing about Sandpapergate
- Sandpapergate continues to wound Australia eight years on
Monday 9 November
Sunday 8 November
- Usman Khawaja reveals why he waited eight years to make bombshell Sandpapergate claims that rocked Aussie cricket: 'He talked me out of it'
- Fresh Sandpapergate claims cast shadow over summer of cricket
- Khawaja claims entire Australia team knew about 2018 ball-tampering scandal
First: The Independent, 12 min before anyone else
Saturday 7 November
- Lehmann says 'everyone' was ball tampering globally, denies Khawaja's sandpaper claims
First: ABC News (Australia), 4 hr 51 min before anyone else
- Australian bowlers and Bancroft silent after Khawaja’s explosive sandpaper claims
- Khawaja claims all players knew about Sandpapergate ball tampering