'He protected Cricket Australia...' - David Warner's manager comes up with some new shocking revelations in Cape Town sandpaper gate scandal

Senior Australian southpaw David Warner suddenly caught the attention of the entire cricketing fraternity on Thursday morning. It all started when the 36-year-old came up with some statements in a sequence. The entire controversy has gotten more ignited following the shocking claims and sensational revelations from James Erskine, David Warner’s manager.

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Erskine has come up with some astonishing blames on Cricket Australia regarding the infamous ball tempering Saga in the Third Test played at Capet Town against South Africa. Warner’s manager has claimed that the Aussie players were instructed to do so on the field during the third Test against the Proteas.

James Erskine also went on to drag the name of the former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull into the entire matter.

“The Prime Minister came out , Turnbull came out and said this is a disgrace and whatever, I think he regrets those comments now, Cricket Australia had the whole process, the Roy report was done in four days,” said Erskine to SEN today.

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“You’d have to be a blind black Labrador, there were far more than three people involved in this thing, they all got 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,” he added later.

Two senior executives were in the changing room – James Erskine

“There are lots of people. There’re two cricketers who put their hands up and said at the time, ‘Why don’t we all just tell the truth, they can’t fire all of us.’ That’s what happened, two senior executives were in the changing room in Hobart and basically were berating the team for losing against South Africa and Warner said we’ve got to reverse-swing the ball. The only way we can reverse-swing the ball is by tampering with it,” concluded Erskine in his statement while lashing out at Cricket Australia for villainizing David Warner unnecessarily.