Sydney, Nov. 10 -- Australian pace veteran Mitchell Starc broke his silence on former batter Usman Khawaja's recent explosive revelations about the 2018 ball-tampering scandal, saying that he "has not paid much attention to it" and that his recollection has not changed from what it was in 2021, when the Aussie bowling quartet had issued a joint statement about not being aware of a foreign object being used to alter the ball's condition.

The 'Sandpapergate' scandal refers to ball-tampering by Australia during the third Test against South Africa at Cape Town, for which then-captain vice-captain Steve Smith and David Warner received one-year competitive cricket bans, while Cameron Bancroft was also handed sanctions, including a nine-month i...