Another Aussie Cricketer Breaks Silence, Admits Using Sandpaper To Tamper Ball

Cricket Australia is once again hit with the infamous sandpapergate controversy (Credit: Cricket Australia)

Former Australian spinner Stuart MacGill, who participated in 44 Test matches and three ODIs from 1998 to 2008 for his nation, acknowledged using sandpaper to tamper with the ball during his playing career. He claimed that at the time, no one considered it a cheating scheme. During a conversation on Usman Khawaja's shocking revelation in his new autobiography on a FanaticsTV YouTube show, MacGill acknowledged it alongside fellow countrymen Steve O'Keefe and Moises Henriques. Khawaja asserted that everyone on the team—not only Cameron Bancroft, David Warner, and Steve Smith—was aware of the 2018 ball-tampering incident against South Africa, a claim that Warner has since supported.

MacGill interrupted O'Keefe and Henriques while they were talking about the several ball-tampering techniques, they had observed over the years on the YouTube show.

“I’d cut a small piece of sandpaper and tape it to my thumb. It was not a part of a massive ‘global cheating scam’; I was just really curious to see what would happen and if it would work. And oh, it works (laughs). What they would do is the umpires as you’re walking out on the…

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