Usman Khawaja has claimed “all” of the Australia touring party knew about the plot to tamper with the ball against South Africa in Cape Town in 2018 and the team also used sandpaper during the second Test at Port Elizabeth.

The former Australia batter said the team used sandpaper to tamper with the ball before Cameron Bancroft was caught on camera while handling the object during the third Test, ahead of the release of Khawaja’s autobiography Sabr on Tuesday.

Bancroft, David Warner and Steve Smith were the only players sanctioned after a Cricket Australia investigation found the trio had prior knowledge of the scheme to use sandpaper as a ball tampering agent in Cape Town.

Captain Smith and vice-captain Warner were suspended for 12 months for their parts in the plot, while Bancroft was handed a nine-month ban for using sandpaper on the ball .

“It was all of us. Not the batters, not the bowlers, not the staff. All of us,” Khawaja told Nine newspapers.

“In an ideal world, I don’t want to do this.…