Claims extracted
23
sentences that state something as happening or true
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9%
2 of 23 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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David Warner has claimed Graeme Hick questioned Usman Khawaja’s assertion the whole team was aware of the ball-tampering plot because the former batting coach was out of favour with the side.
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coach → claim → side
Hick on Tuesday told this masthead he had no prior knowledge of Australia’s plans to use sandpaper during the 2018 tour of South Africa, slamming Khawaja’s claims the entire touring party knew as “absolutely false”.
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party → tell → claims
Warner responded overnight on social media to Hick’s comments.
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Warner → respond → comments
He claimed Hick’s recollection of the events leading into the Cape Town Test was affected by the team’s desire to install Michael Di Venuto into his role as Australia’s batting coach.
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recollection → claim → coach
Hick was let go by Cricket Australia in June 2020 as part of the organisation’s austerity measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hick → let → pandemic
Di Venuto returned as the team’s batting coach in July 2021.
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Venuto → return → July
Warner’s comment did not challenge Hick’s account, but questioned his standing among the players.
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comment → challenge → players
“Let’s get the facts straight.
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facts → let → ?
Graeme Hick was only appointed because Cricket Australia was unwilling to pay Michael Di Venuto what he deserved,” Warner wrote on social media platform X in reply to a post by the Wide World of Sports account.
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Warner → appoint → account
“As players, we valued Michael so highly that we even offered to contribute from our own salaries to retain him.
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we → value → him
These discussions were taking place during the New Zealand tour [in 2017].
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discussions → take → 2017
That alone speaks volumes about how highly we regarded him and how determined we were to keep him involved.
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we → speak → him
Adds to why Graeme has spoken!!”
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Graeme → add → ?
Hick declined to comment when contacted by this masthead on Thursday morning to respond to Warner’s remarks.
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Hick → decline → remarks
Hick is the second member of Australia’s coaching staff from the tour to contest Khawaja’s claim in his memoir Sabr that the whole touring party was aware of the plan to use sandpaper in Cape Town.
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party → contest → Town
Khawaja also alleged sandpaper was used in the second Test at Port Elizabeth, now known as Gqberha.
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sandpaper → allege → Gqberha
“I have seen the various statements around the coaches and I’m very disappointed with the broad nature of them,” Hick told this masthead on Thursday.
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Hick → see → Thursday
“Khawaja puts it simply: ‘It was all of us.
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It → put → us
To me what Khawaja is implying here is absolutely false.
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implying → imply → what
“In regard to any discussions around the ball tampering in Port Elizabeth or Cape Town that took place, I will say in true honesty that I did not hear or know anything!!
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I → take → anything
“My first knowledge of all this was, like many, when it appeared on the big screen in Cape Town as I was sat on the outside balcony at the time.”
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I → appear → time
Khawaja also claimed a member of the coaching staff had encouraged Bancroft to use sandpaper during an interval of the Cape Town Test.
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member → claim → Test
Lehmann and Hick have now both denied they were involved.
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they → deny → ?
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