Simon Longstaff, who led a review into the culture of Cricket Australia in 2018, says he heard whispers that the public record of the infamous sandpaper cheating scandal that year was inaccurate, that a cover-up was possible and that he may have been lied to by players.
The executive director of The Ethics Centre, tasked by the peak cricket body to write a cultural and governance review of the sport, made the comments after Usman Khawaja claimed the entire men’s team knew about the cheating plan, and Cricket Australia chief executive Todd Greenberg refused to launch another investigation into the scandal.
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