{"id":51374,"date":"2026-11-14T15:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/sandpapergate-australia-test-captain-pat-cummins-dismisses-usman-khawajas-claims-over-ball-tampering-scandal-as-utter-nonsense-cricket-news-sky-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T15:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T15:55:40","slug":"sandpapergate-australia-test-captain-pat-cummins-dismisses-usman-khawajas-claims-over-ball-tampering-scandal-as-utter-nonsense-cricket-news-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/sandpapergate-australia-test-captain-pat-cummins-dismisses-usman-khawajas-claims-over-ball-tampering-scandal-as-utter-nonsense-cricket-news-sky-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandpapergate: Australia Test captain Pat Cummins dismisses Usman Khawaja&#8217;s claims over ball-tampering scandal as &#8216;utter nonsense&#8217; | Cricket News | Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandpapergate: Australia Test captain Pat Cummins dismisses Usman Khawaja&#8217;s claims over ball-tampering scandal as &#8216;utter nonsense&#8217; Usman Khawaja said in new book &#8216;Sabr&#8217; that every Australia player was aware of ball-tampering scheme in Cape Town in 2018; current Test captain Pat Cummins, who played in the match, reiterated his denial of involvement and dismissed Khawaja&#8217;s<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/cricket\/news\/13611646\/sandpapergate-australia-test-captain-pat-cummins-dismisses-usman-khawajas-claims-over-ball-tampering-scandal-as-utter-nonsense\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandpapergate: Australia Test captain Pat Cummins dismisses Usman Khawaja&#8217;s claims over ball-tampering scandal as &#8216;utter nonsense&#8217; Usman Khawaja said in new book &#8216;Sabr&#8217; that every Australia player was aware of ball-tampering scheme in Cape Town in 2018; current Test captain Pat Cummins, who played in the match, reiterated his denial of involvement and dismissed Khawaja&#8217;sRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}