Stumps & Bumps: Ghosts of Cape Town still linger

Since the release of Usman Khawaja's autobiography and his version of events of the Sandpapergate controversy, the fallout has reopened a dark period in Australian cricket with varying accounts of what actually happened in Cape Town back in 2018.

Khawaja's claims that the entire team knew about the plans to use sandpaper eight years ago was then backed up by David Warner on social media saying that was '100 percent accurate' which contradicts the official stance by Cricket Australia who named Warner who was vice captain at the time, Cameron Bancroft, and then-captain Steve Smith responsible for the scandal.

Scrutiny is back on Cricket Australia since these revelations, and SEN Cricket's Bharat Sundaresan thinks we'll continue to hear different versions as time goes on.

"I think people are reacting more to the headlines than what he's actually written and how he's written it in that book." said Sundaresan on 'Stumps and Bumps'.

"It's like those shoot interviews that wrestlers do once they retire and expose the business. This will be like the Montreal Screwjob with everyone having their own version of the story and what's true and what's false"

The Montreal Screwjob occurred in the WWE in 1997 at the Survivor Series pay-per-view where during the main event, Bret "The Hitman" Hart was defending his World Title against Shawn Michaels. As Michaels locked Hart in his own signature submission hold, WWE owner Vince McMahon ordered referee Earl Hebner to ring the bell and declare Michaels the winner by submission.

At the time Michaels denied any knowledge and was backed up by fellow wrestler and close friend Triple H that it was only McMahon who knew about the plan to take the title of Hart. But in 2005 he revealed his full involvement along with Triple H, and admitted McMahon told him of the plan the night of the pay-per-view.

"I think we found out at the very least that Shawn Michaels and Triple H are the Usman Khwaja and David Warner of this story because much like Shawn Michaels and Triple H, they've stuck with each other."

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