Usman Khawaja remained silent for eight years. Why did he speak out now?

You've used all of your gift articles. 3 more will become available on the 1st of every month. Australian cricket has itself to blame for the eight-year suppurating wound that has been reopened by Usman Khawaja’s memories of the South African tour of 2018. It bled in 2021 when Cameron Bancroft gave the interview that sealed his fate as an Australian representative. David Warner and his manager periodically reopened it. Left unhealed, it was always ready for a new bleed.