Cummins has repeatedly expressed his dismay at the flippancy he says Khawaja has shown towards his friends and Australian cricket in publishing the allegations in his book.
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Khawaja → express → book
“It’s something I’ve been grappling with the last couple of days,” he said.
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he → ’ → days
“Usman is a friend, but I think the way he’s kind of been quite casual and flippant with people’s lives in Australia, I don’t think that’s okay and I don’t think that’s what friends do.”
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friends → think → what
“So, that’s what I’m thinking through at the moment.
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I → ’ → moment
I don’t know why it’s taken Usman so long.
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it → know → Usman
Again, it’s only this week as a revelation to me that he knew what was going on, that he was sitting next to Cam and that he told Cam to be careful.
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he → ’ → Cam
So, maybe he’s been grappling with that for eight years and that’s a reason he didn’t come out in the investigation at the time?
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he → grapple → time
Perhaps, I don’t know, that’s the reason.”
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that → know → ?
Pat Cummins said he will not pursue legal action over Sandpapergate claims.
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he → say → claims
“I did get advise this week that some of the things that have been said are probably defamatory, but I won’t be doing that,” he said.
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he → get → that
“Like, you’ve got to move on.
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you → get → ?
It’s been eight years, I keep saying we’re moving on, so you’ve got to draw a line at some point.
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you → say → point
So no, I won’t be doing anything.”
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I → do → anything
Pat Cummins was filmed in an animated conversation with his wife, Rebecca, outside their house this week.
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Cummins → film → house
“It’s… very comical.
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It → ’ → ?
Becky wears her heart on her sleeve,” Cummins said.
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Cummins → wear → sleeve
“We weren’t having a spat.
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We → have → spat
On being filmed, Cummins said: “It’s all a bit ridiculous, isn’t it?
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it → film → ?
Like we’re here talking about something that was dealt with eight and a half years ago.
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that → ’re → something
Now I’m walking my daughter, one-year-old daughter in a nappy out the front, and I’ve got cameras chasing me and my family.
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cameras → walk → me
Like, for me, that’s a bit ridiculous.”
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that → ’ → me
“There was no master plan around using illegal methods,” Cummins said.
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Cummins → be → methods
“I think that’s maybe something that hasn’t been spoken about enough.
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that → think → ?
“People assume you’ve gone from very legal methods to suddenly taking sandpaper, and there must have been some huge master plan ... like the truth, that is not the case.
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that → assume → truth
There’s no bowlers saying, ‘this is what must happen’.”
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what → ’ → ?
Cummins said it is normal to see sandpaper in the dressing room, but he stresses that’s different from it being brought onto a pitch.
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it → say → pitch
“It’s a very normal thing around the dressing room,” he said.
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he → ’ → room
“We can go into more depth around that.
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We → go → that
But to then take the leap to say we’re going to use this to affect the playing ball out in the middle.
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we → take → middle
Cummins has said he did not know if there were more than three people who knew about the sandpaper, as had been said at the time.
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who → say → time
“If we’re talking about taking sandpaper out in the front, all I can say is I did not know that that was happening,” Cummins said.
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Cummins → talk → front
“I’m not sure if there was more than those three, but I did not know.”
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I → ’m → three
He also said it’s not obvious whether a ball has been tampered with.
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ball → say → ?
“At that stage, you know, even the umpires had a look.
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umpires → know → look
We didn’t know it had been altered with sandpaper,” Cummins said.
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Cummins → know → sandpaper
“But reverse swings, very normal balls get roughened up every time we play.
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we → roughen → ?
So whether that’s from a foreign object or something that’s totally legal and part of the game, sometimes it’s hard to know.
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it → ’ → game
But out there in the field, I did not see anything on the ball.”
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I → see → ball
Cummins has said Khawaja was casual with his friends’ reputations when publishing the allegations in Sabr.
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Khawaja → say → Sabr
“I think Usman actually says things that are actually far more serious than that [everyone knew],” Cummins said.
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Cummins → think → that
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