Cricket Australia must get to the bottom of what happened in South Africa

November 11, 2026 — 2:59pm

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The smell that has wafted around Cricket Australia’s brusque response to cheating by the Australian team in South Africa eight years ago has redeveloped into a strong stench blanketing officialdom’s claim that the matter is closed.

Cricket Australian offered up three sacrificial lambs after Cameron Bancroft was filmed shoving sandpaper into his pants. Bancroft was banned for nine months. Skipper Steve Smith and batsman Dave Warner received 12-month suspensions. Smith was banned also from the captaincy for at least two years, while Warner was told he would never lead Australia.

One of Australia’s players in that Cape Town Test, Usman Khawaja, who retired last January, has written an........

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