2 hours ago · Australia
Pat Cummins press conference live updates: Australian cricket captain speaks about Usman Khawaja’s ‘sandpapergate’ claims

What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a sports story. The Guardian Sport is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Australia. The first report grouped here was at 12 Nov 2026, 22:19 UTC. 3 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “Pat Cummins press conference live updates: Australian cricket captain speaks about Usman Khawaja’s ‘sandpapergate’ claims”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Cummins speaks about allegations in Usman Khawaja’s book about the 2018 ball-tampering incident 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.
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