Australia v England ODI, Adelaide Oval LIVE: Warner clarifies concern about sandpaper investigation

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After an emphatic win in Perth on Friday, Australia’s young team heads to Adelaide full of confidence for the second game of the three-match ODI series, but the sandpaper scandal continues to hog the headlines.

As for the 2018 “sandpapergate” scandal which re-emerged to dominate the news cycle in cricket last week, David Warner has issued another social media post on the matter today.

Warner – who was banned for a year in 2018 because of his role in Australia’s on-field use of sandpaper to tamper with the ball in a Test match in South Africa – posted on Instagram on Saturday, airing frustration about the inquiry Cricket Australia conducted into the scandal in 2018 that led to his suspension.

“As far as I am aware, CA did not interview Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc or Nathan Lyon in their 2018 investigation,” Warner posted to Instagram, where he has 10.3 million followers.

“It looks like they had decided who they wanted to blame from the very beginning, ran a shoddy investigation to serve the purpose, and now they want to maintain the false narrative that the bowlers had no idea. That stinks of a cover-up.”

But Andrew Wu, reporting for this masthead, confirmed through two knowledgeable sources that the bowlers Hazlewood, Starc and Lyon were interviewed.

That report seems to have prompted this response from Warner just moments ago:

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