Former Australia batting coach Graeme Hick has slammed Usman Khawaja’s bombshell revelation that everyone on the team knew that sandpaper was being used to shine the ball during the Cape Town Test against South Africa in 2018.

Three days before the release of his memoir ‘Sabr,’ Khawaja opened up on Sandpapergate, saying: “It was all of us. Not the batters, not the bowlers, not the staff. All of us [knew].” However, Hick, who was Australia’s batting coach from 2016-2020, staunchly denied those claims.