David Warner has backed Usman Khawaja's account of the 2018 ball tampering scandal, calling it "100 per cent accurate".

He said so in an Instagram video on Monday. It was his first public comment on the scandal in eight years.

In his book Sabr, published on 10 November, Khawaja says the whole Australian team knew about the plan to use sandpaper on the ball.

He writes that Steve Smith, Warner and Cameron Bancroft were made scapegoats. "It was all of us," he writes.

Khawaja also says the plan was used in the earlier Test at Gqeberha, before Bancroft was caught on camera at Newlands.

Warner called the inquiry "rushed and botched". Khawaja sat next to Bancroft in the dressing room that day but was never formally interviewed.

In 2018 Smith and Warner were banned for 12 months and Bancroft for nine. Warner was also barred from leadership roles.

Mitchell Starc is sticking to the bowlers' 2021 statement denying any prior knowledge. "My recollection hasn't changed," he said.

Former leg spinner Stuart MacGill said this week that he used sandpaper on the ball himself during his career, from 1998 to 2008.

Cricket Australia will not reopen the case. Chief executive Todd Greenberg said there was "absolutely no benefit going back".

The row is likely to follow Australia into its home Test series against New Zealand, which starts in Perth on 9 December.

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