Cummins speaks about allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident ‘Complete and utter nonsense’: Australia captain Pat Cummins hits back at Khawaja ‘sandpapergate’ claims Cummins says there’s a ‘proper way to do things’ Cummins says he believes there was a proper way to handle the sandpaper incident, pointing to the Cricket Australia investigation shortly afterwards. There’s a very proper way to do things and improve. I think that investigation was a proper way to do it. Everyone was asked in the circumstances about a game very quickly after. So that’s for CA. I think you can maybe argue whether the judgements were fair, but what can you do? I got asked all the questions, answered them all fairly. That’s my story, so I think he’s wrong. The details really matter in that difference. So perhaps there was conversations with Cameron Bancroft around taking sandpa