David Warner lobs new threat to reignite Sandpapergate as his ‘life punishment’ continues

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David Warner has threatened to unleash another Sandpapergate scandal in the future after accusing Pat Cummins of throwing Usman Khawaja under the bus on Friday. Cummins held court…

David Warner has threatened to unleash another Sandpapergate scandal in the future after accusing Pat Cummins of throwing Usman Khawaja under the bus on Friday, as cricket’s civil war goes into overdrive.

Cummins held court with media for 70 minutes in Sydney and dismissed Khawaja’s claims that he and others were the architects as “utter nonsense”.

The Test captain’s response left some from Australia’s 2018 South African touring party “flabbergasted”, according to Channel 7’s Tom Morris.

And Warner, who was quick to back up Khawaja following the first release of his claims last weekend, quickly declared he still stands by his former opening partner.

“Pat Cummins was very well prepared this morning and I still stick by Uzzy and what he’s written in that book,” he said ahead of Australia’s first ODI against England in Perth.

“It is the truth and I really, really support him. I actually feel for him at the moment. I actually feel that the captain today actually threw Uzzy under the bus and I’m very, very disappointed about that.”

Cummins agreed the bans handed down to Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft were too harsh after an investigation found they were the only players behind the plot, but rejected Khawaja’s assertion that the entire team knew.

Warner repeated that he, Smith and Bancroft “have paid a big price in this”.

“I hadn’t spoken about it in eight years but at the end of the day we’ve got to live with these consequences daily and we’ve been served a life punishment,” he said on Fox Sports.

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