Former batter David Warner has further fanned the flames on Australian cricket's civil war, according to a report by The Guardian. The newspaper said Warner claimed that three bowlers who played in the third Test against South Africa in 2018 were not interviewed as part of an investigation into the sandpaper scandal.
The Guardian reported that the three bowlers Warner named were Hazlewood, Lyon and Starc. Warner, a former vice-captain, described the inquiry run by Cricket Australia as a "shoddy investigation," the paper said in its summary of his remarks.
The report was written by Martin Pegan. Its headline framed Warner's remarks as suggesting a cover-up, a characterization that appears in the headline and not as a direct statement from Warner in the material available for this story.
The summary of the report is incomplete and ends mid-sentence. It does not say whether Cricket Australia has responded to Warner's claims, whether Hazlewood, Lyon or Starc have commented, or what Warner based his claim on. Those details could not be confirmed from the available material.
The Guardian described the remarks as part of a wider public dispute within Australian cricket over the sandpaper scandal. The summary does not give further detail on the other sides of that dispute.