Usman Khawaja defends timing of ball-tampering revelations
In a five-minute long Instagram explanation, Khawaja revealed he had planned to go public with the details days after the incident before the suspended Steve Smith talked him out of it.
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Khawaja ball-tampering revelations and his defence of their timing, with added detail about his Instagram explanation and the Smith detail, and nothing in it conflicts with Re
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