Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has claimed that Victorian teams were the "best" at ball-tampering in the Sheffield Shield domestic competition and admitted his own complicity in the practice, describing it as "very normal" at the time.
The comments were reported by The Cricket News on November 9, 2026. Khawaja, a veteran opening batter for Australia and Queensland, did not specify particular matches or seasons in the reported remarks.
