Sandpaper Controversy: David Warner Manager: Warner vs Cricket Australia: Ian Healy – Day by day, the sandpaper controversy is taking an ugly turn of events. Now, Australia cricket legend Ian Healy has revealed that he was in the dressing room that day after David Warner’s manager James Erskine hit back at Cricket Australia (CA) with shocking and explosive ball-tampering claims. After Warner withdrew his leadership ban from the CA review panel, Erskine made a bold claim that more people are involved in the Sandpaper Saga which occurred in the 2018 Newlands Test. Follow Sandpaper Controversy Live Updates with InsideSport.IN.
“Two senior executives were in the changing room in Hobart (in 2016) and basically were berating the team for losing against South Africa,” Erskine said onSEN1170.
Sandpaper Controversy: Ian Healy makes a shocking revelation after David Warner manager hits back CA, says ‘I was in the dressing room that day’
Sandpaper Controversy: What was James Erskine’s shocking revelation?
Erskine accused CA of 2016 incident involving Australia and South Africa in the Hobart Test match about two senior executives being present in the dressing room. Warner’s manager revealed that two senior former Australia players were unhappy about the team losing to South Africa and not managing to get the ball to swing. “Warner said that we’ve got to reverse swing the ball, and the only way we can reverse swing the ball is basically by tampering with it – and so they were told to do it.”
Healy explained he entered the dressing room along with Mark Taylor to just support the players after the loss to South Africa. “We went in that day, and it would’ve happened that day where they were spoken to by unnamed people and said ‘we don’t pay you to do anything but win’ and that was the attitude that came out, which wasn’t good.”
Erskine accused CA officials of also playing a part in ball-tampering and made a bold statement that “you’d have to be a blind black Labrador” to believe only Smith, Bancroft, and Warner were involved. Healy though said that he is not aware of any of Erskine’s accusations made.
“I don’t know of any other incidents that James has come out and said so David has kept that well in-house, but now James has opened his mouth.
“That’s the bombshell that Cricket Australia didn’t want, and this independent panel should have been behind closed doors sorting out.”
Sandpaper Controversy: Ian Healy makes a shocking revelation after David Warner manager hits back CA, says ‘I was in the dressing room that day’
