Usman Khawaja bunkers down as book tour ‘adjusted’ amid ball-tampering claims

Khawaja’s book tour will still go ahead but with changes to this week’s schedule following an uncomfortable interview on the ABC’s 7.30 Report Book tour will still go ahead but with changes this week’s schedule Usman Khawaja’s promotional book tour has been subject to “adjustments” after the former Australia Test batter was grilled about certain claims on the ABC’s 7.30 Report. Khawaja pulled out of some radio and television spots on Wednesday, with his publisher Penguin saying that while the tour had not been cancelled entirely, changes had been made to his schedule this week.

It follows an uncomfortable interview with veteran journalist Sarah Ferguson on the national broadcaster’s current affairs show on Tuesday night. “The book tour is 100[%] still going ahead, we’ve just had to make some adjustments this week, but no major cancellation of the tour at all,” a Penguin statement to the ABC read. On Tuesday night’s broadcast, Ferguson repeatedly pressed Khawaja for answers about whether players other than those sanctioned – Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft – knew about Australian