Usman Khawaja has blown the sandpaper scandal wide open again. The former Australia Test opener claims the entire Australia team knew about the plan to use sandpaper on the ball during the final Test of the 2018 series in South Africa — the Cape Town match that cost Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft their reputations and, temporarily, their careers.

Khawaja went further, saying an object was also used on the ball in Port Elizabeth, suggesting the tampering extended beyond the single Test that triggered the crisis. The Guardian reported his blunt summary of the dressing room's culpability: “It was all of us.”

That framing directly challenges the official story — that the plot was confined to three men. Yet Cricket Australia remains “comfortable” with the sanctions as handed down, per The Guardian, with bans applying only to Bancroft, Warner and Smith.

Eight years on, the scandal's central question — who knew what — clearly isn't settled. Khawaja's account ensures it won't be anytime soon.