David Warner’s agent drops bombshell claim, says players were told to tamper the ball in 2016 too

The Sandpapergate gets more fodder added to it after David Warner's manager reveals stirring news that the players were allegedly given permission to tamper with the ball by unnamed officials some 16 months prior to the Cape Town scandal in 2018.
The drama has yet again rekindled after the Aussie opener decided to rescind his application to lift his lifetime captaincy ban after the nature of the review was unsettling for Warner as it was to be conducted in public rather than behind closed doors. 
The drama intensified as Warner's manager James Erskine revealed some arresting disclosure implied in an interview on SEN that players had been given the go-ahead to tamper with the ball after a 2016 thrashing from South Africa in Hobart.
“Two senior executives were in the changing room in Hobart and basically were berating the team for losing against South Africa,” Erskine said on SEN.
“Warner said we’ve got to reverse-swing the ball. And the only way we can reverse-swing the ball is by tampering with it. And so, they were told to do it.”
On further revelation, Erskine said that Warner was the scapegoat in the whole ball tampering fiasco as there were more people who got their hands dirty. 
"There was far more than three people involved in this thing, they all got a canning and David Warner was completely villainised," Erskine said.
"He has shut up, he protected Cricket Australia, he protected his fellow players on my advice, because at the end of the day no one wanted to hear any more of it and he's got on playing cricket.
“This is injustice at its greatest level.” he concluded.
The Delhi Capitals' (DC) opener took to the field on Thursday (December 8) for the first time since his Wednesday (December 7) evening statement as he batted with the same aggression as was reflected in his lengthy letter that oozed frustration. He scored 21 from 29 balls against the West Indies on Day 1 of the Test after Steve Smith won the toss and opted to bat first at Adelaide Oval.
The 36-year-old deployed his eclectic batting shots as he cut, drove, and cover-drove Alzarri Joseph for three fours in one over before being caught behind in the first session of the match.