Fri, 11 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 117, AAW 4/121
Mon, 14 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, ZIM 235, AUS 8/294
Mon, 14 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 7/148, AAW 2/178
Wed, 16 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 161, AAW 5/168
Thu, 17 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, ZIM 272, AUS 6/356
Thu, 17 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, INU 6/182, AUU 7/175
Thu, 17 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, WAU 9/238, SAM 0/58
Fri, 18 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, QUE 7/335, VIC 7/339
Sat, 19 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, ZIM 8/271, AUS 9/272
Sat, 19 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 6/239, AAW 235
Sat, 19 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, WAU 115, TAS 1/117
Sun, 20 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, INU 7/341, AUU 239
Mon, 21 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, QUE 358, NSW 6/359
Tue, 22 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 6/338, AAW 8/341
Tue, 22 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, INU 4/255, AUU 254
Tue, 22 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, SAM 7/383, TAS 8/376
Wed, 23 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, SAF 8/297, AUS 230
Thu, 24 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 6/364, AAW 9/362
Thu, 24 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, INA 334 & 199, AUA 171 & 200
Thu, 24 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, VIC 212, NSW 257
Sat, 26 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, SAF 9/365, AUS 333
Mon, 28 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, INU 494, AUU 217 & 229
Mon, 28 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, SYW 4/168, QUW 167
Mon, 28 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, VIW 8/293, SAS 7/290
Mon, 28 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, WAW 6/236, TAW 232
Tue, 29 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, SAF 4/145, AUS 9/322
Wed, 30 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, IAW 364 & 257, AAW 176 & 164
Wed, 30 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, SYW 174, QUW 4/285
Wed, 30 Sept, 11:00 pm, Final score, WAW 7/273, TAW 7/299
Thu, 1 Oct, 2:00 pm, Final score, VIW -, SAS -
Thu, 1 Oct, 11:00 pm, Final score, INA 167 & 9/310, AUA 358 & 4/173d
Tue, 6 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, INA 149, AUA 274
Tue, 6 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, QUW 9/266, BAW 7/196
Wed, 7 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, INU 315 & 0/11, AUU 174 & 151
Fri, 9 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AUW 3/168, BAW 166
Fri, 9 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, INA 206, AUA 275
Sat, 10 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, VIC 244 & 224, SAM 508
Sun, 11 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AUW 1/222, BAW 6/220
Sun, 11 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, INA 275, AUA 226
Sun, 11 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, NSW 9/500d, TAS 245 & 5/402
Sun, 11 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, WAU 175 & 8/201, QUE 307 & 68
Mon, 12 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, VIC 241, SAM 311
Mon, 12 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, HHW 7/127, ACM 100
Mon, 12 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SSW 3/136, BHW 90
Mon, 12 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, MRW 7/138, PSW 4/139
Mon, 12 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, STW 3/79, MSW 78
Tue, 13 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SAF 284 & 206, AUS 390 & 6/314d
Tue, 13 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, NSW 158, TAS 203
Tue, 13 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, WAU 246, QUE 261
Tue, 13 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SSW 3/78, ACM 7/77
Tue, 13 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, ASW 4/183, PSW 8/182
Tue, 13 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, STW -, BHW -
Wed, 14 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AUW 2/175, BAW 172
Wed, 14 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, MRW 4/180, MSW 6/179
Wed, 14 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, ASW 5/165, HHW 8/136
Fri, 16 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, BHW 4/86, ACM 83
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SAM 7/397, QUE 271
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, HHW 5/136, PSW 8/166
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, STW 5/122, MRW 9/121
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, ACM 4/129, MSW 6/132
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SSW 9/105, ASW 6/143
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AUW 8/165, NZW 2/162
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, MRW 2/132, HHW 8/129
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, BHW 129, ASW 6/139
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, STW 2/93, PSW 92
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SSW 8/155, MSW 5/158
Sun, 18 Oct, 7:15 pm, Live score, AUW -, BAW -
Tue, 20 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AUW 7/167, NZW 8/127
Tue, 20 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, ASW 6/116, PSW 5/118
Tue, 20 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, STW 9/152, SSW 6/153
Tue, 20 Oct, 7:15 pm, Live score, AUW -, BAW -
Wed, 21 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SAM 203 & 145, QUE 238 & 4/114
Wed, 21 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, PSW 7/134, SSW 8/149
Thu, 22 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SAF 9/425d, AUS 99 & 295 f/o
Thu, 22 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AUW -, NZW 2/11
Thu, 22 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, TAS 241 & 236, VIC 207 & 266
Thu, 22 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, WAU 339 & 9/244, NSW 6/440d & 5/262d
Thu, 22 Oct, 7:15 pm, Live score, AUW -, BAW -
Sat, 24 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, TAS 137, VIC 7/304
Sat, 24 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, WAU 293, NSW 8/371
Thu, 29 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, MRW 9/138, STW 4/140
Thu, 29 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, MSW 4/192, HHW 8/174
Fri, 30 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, BHW 5/154, SSW 6/157
Fri, 30 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AU6 3/135, ONG 4/107
Fri, 30 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, EN6 0/121, AU6 4/159
Sat, 31 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SAF 329 & 387, AUS 429 & 111
Sat, 31 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, ASW 2/185, MSW 7/164
Sat, 31 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, PSW 1/138, MRW 6/136
Sat, 31 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, SAM 154 & 316, WAU 5/406d & 169
Sat, 31 Oct, 12:00 am, Final score, AU6 3/141, UE6 6/88
Sun, 1 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, STW 4/180, BHW 5/178
Sun, 1 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, SSW 8/196, HHW 109
Sun, 1 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, TAS 427, NSW 202 & 144 f/o
Sun, 1 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, AU6 5/115, AF6 2/119
Mon, 2 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, MSW 109, PSW 9/124
Tue, 3 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, QUE 280 & 3/75, VIC 307 & 173
Wed, 4 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, HHW 7/154, MRW 6/155
Thu, 5 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, ASW 5/170, BHW 4/184
Thu, 5 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, STW 166, PSW 3/183
Fri, 6 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, MSW 7/159, SSW 5/160
Sat, 7 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, MRW 3/188, ASW 8/152
Sat, 7 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, BHW 6/119, HHW 9/116
Sat, 7 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, WAU 159, ENG 251
Sun, 8 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, SSW 2/162, STW 158
Sun, 8 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, PSW 4/137, MSW 6/136
Tue, 10 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, HHW 5/138, ASW 6/139
Wed, 11 Nov, 12:00 am, Final score, PSW 6/160, STW 5/159
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:00 am, Live score, MSW -, BHW -
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:00 am, Live score, MRW -, SSW -
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:00 am, Live score, QUE 6/294, TAS -
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:00 am, Live score, NSW 204, SAM 7/272
Thu, 12 Nov, 12:00 am, Live score, VIC 5/402d, WAU 0/2
Fri, 13 Nov, 2:30 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Sat, 14 Nov, 3:40 pm, Game not started, HHW versus BHW
Sat, 14 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, PSW versus ASW
Sun, 15 Nov, 11:00 am, Game not started, SSW versus MRW
Sun, 15 Nov, 2:30 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Mon, 16 Nov, 10:00 am, Game not started, NSW versus SAM
Mon, 16 Nov, 11:00 am, Game not started, QUE versus TAS
Mon, 16 Nov, 2:00 pm, Game not started, VIC versus WAU
Mon, 16 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, STW versus MSW
Tue, 17 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, ASW versus SSW
Wed, 18 Nov, 2:30 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Thu, 19 Nov, 3:40 pm, Game not started, HHW versus PSW
Thu, 19 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, BHW versus STW
Fri, 20 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, ASW versus MRW
Sat, 21 Nov, 12:00 pm, Game not started, HHW versus STW
Sat, 21 Nov, 3:30 pm, Game not started, SSW versus PSW
Sat, 21 Nov, 7:15 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Sun, 22 Nov, 10:30 am, Game not started, NSW versus QUE
Sun, 22 Nov, 3:40 pm, Game not started, BHW versus ASW
Sun, 22 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, MSW versus MRW
Mon, 23 Nov, 1:30 pm, Game not started, WAU versus TAS
Tue, 24 Nov, 11:00 am, Game not started, SAM versus VIC
Tue, 24 Nov, 7:15 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Wed, 25 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, MRW versus BHW
Thu, 26 Nov, 3:40 pm, Game not started, STW versus ASW
Thu, 26 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, SSW versus MSW
Fri, 27 Nov, 7:15 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Fri, 27 Nov, 9:10 pm, Game not started, PSW versus HHW
Sat, 28 Nov, 3:40 pm, Game not started, MRW versus MSW
Sat, 28 Nov, 7:10 pm, Game not started, STW versus SSW
Sun, 29 Nov, 12:00 pm, Game not started, BHW versus PSW
Sun, 29 Nov, 3:30 pm, Game not started, ASW versus HHW
Sun, 29 Nov, 7:15 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Tue, 1 Dec, 7:10 pm, Game not started, versus
Wed, 2 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, AUS versus ENG
Thu, 3 Dec, 10:30 am, Game not started, NSW versus WAU
Thu, 3 Dec, 10:30 am, Game not started, VIC versus QUE
Thu, 3 Dec, 11:00 am, Game not started, SAM versus TAS
Thu, 3 Dec, 7:10 pm, Game not started, versus
Sat, 5 Dec, 7:10 pm, Game not started, versus
Wed, 9 Dec, 1:20 pm, Game not started, AUS versus NZL
Sat, 12 Dec, 8:10 pm, Game not started, MER versus PER
Mon, 14 Dec, 11:00 am, Game not started, SAS versus WAW
Tue, 15 Dec, 10:00 am, Game not started, ACM versus SYW
Tue, 15 Dec, 3:00 pm, Game not started, SLW versus AUW
Tue, 15 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, BRI versus SYS
Wed, 16 Dec, 11:00 am, Game not started, SAS versus WAW
Wed, 16 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYT versus ADE
Thu, 17 Dec, 10:00 am, Game not started, ACM versus SYW
Thu, 17 Dec, 11:30 am, Game not started, AUS versus NZL
Thu, 17 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, HOB versus BRI
Fri, 18 Dec, 3:00 pm, Game not started, SLW versus AUW
Fri, 18 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, MES versus ADE
Sat, 19 Dec, 10:30 am, Game not started, TAW versus VIW
Sat, 19 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYT versus SYS
Sun, 20 Dec, 3:00 pm, Game not started, SLW versus AUW
Sun, 20 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, PER versus HOB
Mon, 21 Dec, 10:30 am, Game not started, TAW versus VIW
Mon, 21 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, MES versus BRI
Tue, 22 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYS versus MER
Wed, 23 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, ADE versus SYT
Thu, 24 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, MER versus HOB
Sat, 26 Dec, 10:30 am, Game not started, AUS versus NZL
Sat, 26 Dec, 6:05 pm, Game not started, SYS versus BRI
Sat, 26 Dec, 9:15 pm, Game not started, PER versus MES
Sun, 27 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYT versus MER
Mon, 28 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, BRI versus ADE
Tue, 29 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, HOB versus MES
Wed, 30 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, PER versus SYT
Thu, 31 Dec, 7:15 pm, Game not started, ADE versus MES
Fri, 1 Jan 2027, 4:00 pm, Game not started, MER versus SYS
Fri, 1 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, BRI versus HOB
Sat, 2 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYT versus PER
Sun, 3 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYS versus ADE
Mon, 4 Jan 2027, 10:30 am, Game not started, AUS versus NZL
Mon, 4 Jan 2027, 10:30 am, Game not started, QUW versus ACM
Mon, 4 Jan 2027, 6:05 pm, Game not started, MES versus MER
Mon, 4 Jan 2027, 9:15 pm, Game not started, PER versus BRI
Tue, 5 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, HOB versus SYT
Wed, 6 Jan 2027, 10:30 am, Game not started, QUW versus ACM
Wed, 6 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, ADE versus MER
Thu, 7 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, MES versus SYS
Fri, 8 Jan 2027, 5:00 pm, Game not started, WAW versus VIW
Fri, 8 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, BRI versus PER
Sat, 9 Jan 2027, 10:30 am, Game not started, TAW versus SYW
Sat, 9 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, HOB versus ADE
Sun, 10 Jan 2027, 2:10 pm, Game not started, SYS versus PER
Sun, 10 Jan 2027, 5:00 pm, Game not started, WAW versus VIW
Sun, 10 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, MER versus BRI
Mon, 11 Jan 2027, 10:30 am, Game not started, TAW versus SYW
Mon, 11 Jan 2027, 7:15 pm, Game not started, SYT versus MES
Usman Khawaja wants to tell "his story" about the sandpaper scandal. ( Getty Images: Darrian Traynor )
Usman Khawaja's revelations about the sandpaper scandal have reopened a massive rift in Australian cricket: who knew what? Who's lying? Who's telling the truth.
Much of the problem lies in the ambiguity of language that Khawaja has used in his interviews and moreover in his newly release autobiography, Sabr, which he is now publicising.
When Khawaja told the Nine newspapers that "It was all of us. Not the batters, not the bowlers, not the staff. All of us," what exactly did he mean?
Was he inferring that the entire team knew about the plot to sandpaper a cricket ball during the third Test in Cape Town in 2018?
Cameron Bancroft was banned for nine months and Steve Smith for a year for their roles in the sandpaper scandal. (Photo by Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images/Getty Images) ( Getty Images: Ashley Vlotman )
That clearly is how most of Australia understood that statement.
Or was he saying that everyone in the Australian set-up needed to take responsibility?
We don't know and that is because of Khawaja's deliberate attempts to not name names as he told Sarah Ferguson on 730 this week , "it's never been for me about pointing fingers."
"This is my story," he wrote in his book.
But what is clearly inferred from the book is that even if he wasn't pointing fingers at individuals, the knowledge of the ball tampering was widespread and discussed within the team and on the field.
So, what exactly is in Khawaja's book?
The sandpaper chapter is dedicated to three players who were banned for their involvement in the incident, then captain, Steve Smith, Cameron Bancroft and "my childhood friend David Warner".
"The truth will set you free," he wrote.
The set-up happened before the first test in Durban when he alleges a member of the coaching staff told the team: "I don't care what you have to do, or how, but we need to get it moving in the air."
The Australians celebrate the final wicket of the first Test in Durban in 2018. ( Getty Images: Lee Warren/Gallo Images )
"It was so much harder to bat when the ball was moving in the air, particularly when it was reverse swinging.
"We had to keep doing what all of us had been doing for years in domestic and international cricket: finding a way to make it go reverse.
"Reverse swing on those older, flatter Test wickets was how you won matches, come day four and five."
The first reference to sandpaper in the chapter comes in reference to the size of the change rooms during the South Africa series.
"Of course I bloody knew what was happening with the sandpaper.
"There wasn't much in those small change-rooms that got past me. It was a room full of banter and it was very hard to hide anything. Let alone when you used sandpaper on the ball and it would leave these huge swirl marks on it."
Sandpaper, he explains, is readily available in cricket change rooms, because batters use it to clean up their bats.
On day two of the second test at Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), he described an experiment to use sandpaper on a cricket ball.
Steve Smith and David Warner appeal for a wicket during the second Test of the series. ( Getty Images: Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images )
"What we saw was unbelievable. The ball was completely dry and extremely scuffed on the side we'd sandpapered. There was no way it wouldn't reverse if we bowled with it. Everyone had a look at the ball and was laughing their heads off."
He wrote that a plan was hatched to sandpaper the ball in the Test immediately after breaks in play when the umpire would drop the ball on the boundary before the players went onto the field.
Cameron Bancroft offered to do the deed, because David Warner was conscious that the TV cameras were focused on him.
Khawaja recounted Bancroft saying: "No worries — it'll be easy."
"At this stage, Steve Smith put his hands up and said, 'I don't want to know about anything about this,' and walked out of the room."
Smith used almost the exact same words to describe his actions in a press conference during his subsequent one-year ban.
Nevertheless, the plan went ahead as Khawaja described in his book.
Australia cut through the South African batters after Cameron Bancroft had taken to the ball with sandpaper. ( Getty Images: Ashley Vlotman/Gallo Images )
"The next session, we absolutely went through the South Africans. Bangers (Bancroft) had walked on the field after the break, picked up the ball that the umpires had left on the field, and given it a few twists and turns. The ball came up a treat. The shiny side was shiny and the buffed and, thanks to the sandpaper, the reverse side was really rough and dry.
"Every time during that session the ball was passed to me at gully, I'd take a look and think, wow, even I could reverse swing this ball. It was ridiculous. The bowlers went to work and bowled beautifully. Reversing it around corners. We got four wickets for 28 runs.
"It was moving so much that, at one point, one of the bowlers said in the huddle after a wicket, 'Guys, it's going heaps now. Just don't do anything else to it, because it's silly how much it's going'.
Khawaja doesn't name the bowlers who took the four wicket in the book, but the scoreboard shows Mitchell Marsh took two, while Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc took one each.
Even so, Australia lost the test. Khawaja claimed that the South African bowlers were reverse swinging the ball "everywhere", starting after about 21 overs.
"We didn't know what they were doing with the ball — all we knew was that they were better than us at getting it go reverse. And we were using sandpaper!"
Come the third test at Cape Town, drizzle was making the ball wet and hard to swing.
Khawaja described a member of the coaching staff approaching Bancroft who he was sitting next to.
"Bangers, whatever you're doing, we need more of it. It's wet out there — we just need more of it," Khawaja says the coach said.
Khawaja wrote the sandpaper helped take the wet surface layer off the ball, making it dry and more conducive to reverse swing.
It was the next session when the infamous shots of Bancroft trousering a small yellow sliver of sandpaper were broadcast on the big screen at Newlands.
Bancroft, he wrote, was "catatonic".
Cameron Bancroft was called over by the umpires after being caught with the sandpaper. ( Gallo Images via Getty: Ashley Vlotman )
"Every one of the boys on the field was shitting themselves."
Khawaja wrote it was after the game he had a conversation with the team manager, Gavin Dovey.
"We need to cop this as a team. We did it as a team, so we cop it as a team.
"[Dovey] said I was right but that two guys in the team disagreed."
During a subsequent team meeting, Khawaja wrote he expressed the same view that the entire team should accept responsibility.
"There was silence when I said that. Most of the guys agreed, but Painey (Steve Smith's replacement as captain, Tim Paine) knew not everyone felt that way. And so, my idea fell flat."
Khawaja concludes the chapter saying: "I can only speak for myself, and it's very clear I knew what was going on."
Khawaja wants the rest of us to draw our own conclusions.
