Even after 8-and-a-half years, sandpapergate is the gift that keeps giving, the scandal that leaves an irreparable schism not just within a cricket team but an entire country.
As if those events in Cape Town in March 2018 were not lurid enough at the time, with the sight of Cameron Bancroft shoving sandpaper down his trousers a grievous wound to Australia’s sense of itself, Usman Khawaja’s claim that everybody knew about the plot to tamper with the ball has magnified the trauma.
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