Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft were the ones to be sanctioned for the offense, Khawaja has claimed that the entire team knew about the ball-tampering attempt and played along While David Warner . Darren Lehmann , then Australia coach, resigned voluntarily after the scandal but escaped Cricket Australia’s sanction. Former Australia cricketer Usman Khawaja ‘s decision to reopen the 2018 Sandpapergate scandal has put the national team, former coaches, and several players under the spotlight.
David Warner endorsed Chris Broad’s views that former Australia coach Darren Lehmann got off lightly in the 2018 ball-tampering scandal.
“I am very angry at Lehmann. Lehmann surely knew all about it (ball tampering), and if he did not, he should not have been the coach at the time. And I think he has got away lightly because, OK, he left his job a few months later, but he did not get any sanctions,” Chris Broad said in an interview.
“And there he was in 2013, taking the moral high ground against my son, where he played the Australian game of nicking the ball and waiting for the umpire to give him out… and then came out in the media saying ‘we are going to make him cry when he comes to Australia next,” he added.
