Cummins stands firm on ball tampering to leave Australian cricket back where it started | Geoff Lemon

The Guardian

The Test captain kept his promise to answer all questions at a press conference that made his position clear and filled some but not all gaps Our coverage on Thursday said that Pat Cummins needed to front up , and nobody can fairly say that he didn’t. It was a proper ’til-they-drop affair from Australia’s cricket captain, an hour and 10 minutes at a press conference podium taking questions about the 2018 ball-tampering episode until every journalist present ran out of steam. You might have expected some partial concession to teammate Usman Khawaja’s depiction of endemic cheating, but Cummins…