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Khawaja 100% accurate on ball-tampering - Warner

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Pure sports retrospective content about a 2018 cricket ball-tampering scandal and internal team disputes; no product, commodity, company revenue line, cost item or regulatory channel is involved. No commercial mechanism exists for any catalog sector.

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  • David Warner endorsed Usman Khawaja's account of the 2018 Cape Town ball-tampering scandal as '100% accurate'
  • Warner and captain Steve Smith received one-year bans; Cameron Bancroft was banned for nine months
  • Khawaja claimed the entire team knew about the sandpaper use, contradicting bowlers' denials
  • Warner retired from international cricket in 2024 and called the investigation 'rushed and botched'

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