Turnbull weighs in on Khawaja: ‘Why didn’t he speak up at the time?’

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Fallout from the ball-tampering scandal is again dominating headlines two days before the first one-day international against England, following fresh revelations.

Malcolm Turnbull, who, as prime minister, led national outrage at cricket’s 2018 sandpaper scandal by calling it a disgrace, has challenged Usman Khawaja for waiting almost a decade before claiming the whole team knew about the cheating.

“Why didn’t he speak up at the time?” Turnbull said on Wednesday, as Khawaja’s claims that all the then-Test team were “the architects” of the scheme to tamper with the ball ricocheted through Australian cricket.

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