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Peter Handscomb has denied playing any part in the Australian cricket team’s ball-tampering scandal.<\/p>\n
He insists vision of him appearing to run a message out to Cameron Bancroft has been drastically “edited”.<\/p>\n
Video of the incident appears to show coach Darren Lehmann using a walkie-talkie to contact 12th man Handscomb after noticing Cameron Bancroft’s attempt to scuff the ball with sandpaper during the Cape Town Test in March.<\/p>\n
Hanscomb then appears to run a message out to Bancroft, widely alleged at the time to be from Lehmann. But speaking publicly for the first time since the incident – which culminated in lengthy bans for Bancroft, captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner for their roles in the controversy – the batsman says it’s not as it seems.<\/p>\n
“It’s actually amazing how much the media edited it, it shows me on the walkie-talkie then running out talking to Cam,” he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n
Handscomb says his walkie-talkie conversation with Lehmann was more than 20 minutes before he came onto the field, which he only did when another player had to use the bathroom.<\/p>\n
“I get put into a catching position next to Cam … and literally was just trying to have a joke with him, there was nothing else mate – so all this build up about me trying to do something there was just, it wasn’t there,” he said.<\/p>\n
Handscomb was reluctant to elaborate on the details of the conversation he had with Lehmann on the walkie-talkie, saying it had already been well documented.<\/p>\n
Speaking before next month’s Australia A tour of India, Handscomb said the squad was trying to move on from the scandal.<\/p>\n
“Obviously it wasn’t a great time but that’s gone now, we’ve got to deal with what we’ve got and we’ve got some amazing players still on the squad,” he said.<\/p>\n
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