Despite taking questions for over an hour, the Australian Test captain deferred six times to Cricket Australia, leaving the public with two opposing accounts.
It’s rare for journalists to sit through a one-hour-plus press conference, be offered unlimited questions and leave still craving answers.
But that’s what happened on Friday as Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins addressed Usman Khawaja’s claims that the entire Australian Test team knew about a plan to tamper with the ball in 2018 in a match against South Africa.
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