David Warner warned over sandpaper reprisal

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Marnus Labuschagne says helium doesn't expect the 2018 ball-tampering scandal to look successful speech connected the tract erstwhile Australia and South Africa conscionable for the archetypal clip successful Test cricket since that fateful time successful Cape Town.

"Sandpapergate", successful Labuschagne's eyes, is "buried".

Australia's No.3 voiced that presumption up of the Gabba Test contempt the assertion from erstwhile skipper Michael Clarke this week that South Africa indispensable usage the tumultuous occurrence to rattle David Warner, who copped a one-year playing suspension and beingness enactment prohibition for his manus successful the controversy.

"Their attack to immoderate subordinate that was progressive successful that 'Sandpapergate' — they've got it, mate," Clarke said connected his Big Sports Breakfast vigor show.

"It doesn't request to transverse the line, but you tin marque it precise wide to idiosyncratic similar David Warner that the Australian fans are disconnected him.

"I privation to spot Davey Warner, if they person a ace astatine him connected the tract portion he's batting, spell backmost to being that bulldog and springiness it backmost to them."

Labuschagne tried to defuse the concern erstwhile asked if "Sandpapergate" would originate successful speech connected the tract during the Brisbane Test, acceptable to commencement connected Saturday.

"No, I don't actually," Labuschagne said.

"I deliberation we've benignant of buried that and it's thing of the past.

"Moving forward, I don't deliberation either squad is truly going to delve into that part.

"But, similar I said, I tin lone talk from what I deliberation and from what our broadside is thinking."

Labuschagne, who was calved successful South Africa and emigrated astatine the property of 10, hadn't made his Test debut by the clip of the ball-tampering scandal.

He made his debut against Pakistan successful the United Arab Emirates successful October 2018, Australia's archetypal Test bid aft the melodramatic events astatine Newlands Cricket Ground successful March that year.

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South Africa volition tract a vastly antithetic broadside successful Brisbane to the XI that defeated Australia by 322 runs successful Cape Town, with Dean Elgar, Temba Bavuma, Kagiso Rabada and Keshav Maharaj the lone remaining members of the touring party's Test squad.

Warner, Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon featured successful the Cape Town Test and volition play astatine the Gabba.

The ball-tampering saga took different twist erstwhile Warner made the sensational determination to retreat his entreaty of his beingness enactment ban connected the eve of past week's Adelaide Test, successful which Australia thrashed the West Indies by 419 runs.

Australia opened the Test summertime with a 164-run triumph implicit the West Indies successful Perth and the belting that followed astatine Adelaide Oval.

The Australians volition look to solidify their spot astatine the apical of the World Test Championship array crossed 3 Tests against South Africa, acceptable to beryllium played astatine the Gabba, the MCG and the SCG.

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