Legendary Australian cricketer David Warner has slammed former head coach Darren Lehmann, calling him a hypocrite for warning Stuart Broad once about sportsmanship and then getting involved in the Sandpapergate controversy during the tour of South Africa in 2018.

Warner has hinted that the then coach Lehmann was aware of the use of the sandpaper by Australian players in one of the Test matches against the Proteas.

The fresh revelations by Usman Khawaja in his autobiography Sabr have reignited the Sandpapergate scandal in recent days.

It was alleged that Australia had tampered with the ball during the 2017-18 Ashes series, which preceded their bilateral assignment against South Africa.

“I am very angry at Lehmann. Lehmann surely knew all about it (ball tampering), and if he did not, he should not have been the coach at the time. And I think he has got away lightly because, OK, he left his job a few months later, but he did not get any sanctions,” Stuart’s father, Chris Broad, said in an interview.

“And there he was in 2013, taking the moral high ground against my son, where he played the Australian game of nicking the ball and waiting for the umpire to give him out… and then came out in the media saying ‘we are going to make him cry when he comes to Australia next,” Chris added.

Warner has thanked Khawaja for revealing the truth, with the veteran opener claiming that the entire team was aware of the plan to tamper with the ball.

“I couldn’t agree more, and that’s hard for me to say,” Warner tweeted in reply to Chris’ comments.

Chris is still miffed with Lehmann, who had criticised Stuart in 2013.

He couldn’t stop his own players from getting involved in an infamous episode in 2018.