'There was far more than three people involved': David Warner's manager on 'Sandpaper Gate'

David Warner was handed lifetime captaincy ban by CA

The 'Sandpaper Gate' scandal continues to haunt Cricket Australia. David Warner's manager James Erskine has come out with a scattering attack on CA, after his client Warner's sudden withdrawal of his leadership ban appeal last evening. 

Warner taking to Instagram revealed that CA tried to make him and his family a scapegoat, and said that he was “not prepared for my family to be the washing machine for cricket’s dirty laundry”.

According to FOX Sports, Erskine stated that more players were involved in the ball-tampering saga in 2018.

“You’d have to be a blind black Labrador, there was far more than three people involved in this thing, they all got a canning and David Warner was completely villainized.  He has shut up, he protected Cricket Australia, he protected his fellow players on my advice, because at the end of the day no one wanted to hear any more of it and he’s got on playing cricket.”

Erskine further stated that the truth will reveal itself sooner or later and that CA targeted Warner alone. 

“Oh the truth will come out, let me tell you. There’s lots of people. There’s two cricketers who said at the time and put their hands up said: ‘Why don’t we all just tell the truth? They can’t fire all of us.’ That’s, that’s what’s happened.”

Warner, along with Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft were guilty of cheating in the infamous 2018 Test against South Africa in Newlands, after which all three of them served bans for nine months.

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