David Warner has hit back to accuse Australia Test captain Pat Cummins of throwing their former teammate Usman Khawaja under the bus over the ‘Sandpapergate’ scandal.

Earlier on Friday, Cummins described Khawaja’s claims that the whole Australian team knew about the sandpaper plot in South Africa in 2018 as ‘complete and utter nonsense’, and accused his former teammate of being ‘casual with lives and reputations’.

In a forthright and hard-hitting press conference in Sydney lasting well over an hour, Cummins insisted there had been no team meeting to discuss the question of collective responsibility, and no ‘masterplan around using illegal methods’

Warner addressed Cummins’ claims while commentating for Fox Cricket before Australia’s one day international match against England at Perth’s Optus Stadium on Friday.

‘Pat Cummins was very well prepared this morning and I still stick by what Uzzie’s written in that book; it’s the truth,’ he said.

’I support him (and) I actually feel for him at the moment.

‘I actually feel that the captain today threw Uzzie under the bus and I’m very very disappointed.’

Warner, former captain Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft copped lengthy bans from Cricket Australia over the scandal.

’All three of us have paid a big price – I hadn’t spoken about it in eight years, but at the end of the day we have to live with these consequences daily, and we’ve been served a life punishment.

’When other people talk about (being affected) by it, there’s nothing worse than for me, Steve (Smith) and Cameron (Bancroft) who have to walk out there every single day and cop abuse.

‘Yes we accepted it, but at the end of the day my wife and I copped the greatest price; we lost a baby during that time, and that’s why it really hurts me the most until the truth is accepted.’

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