Starc fashioned a part of the bowling assault within the contentious 2018 Check alongside Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon.
In 2021, the quartet, who stay fixtures within the Australia Check facet, issued a joint assertion saying they “didn’t know a overseas substance was taken on to the sphere”.
Talking at a season launch occasion in Sydney, Starc acknowledged he hadn’t “actually paid a lot consideration” to the media protection of Khawaja’s claims.
“Clearly, there’s differing opinions of eight years in the past. We had been closely grilled by the method on the time, since,” stated Starc.
“I assume I will not converse on behalf of the bowlers – however, the place I stand, my opinion hasn’t modified, my recollection hasn’t modified from what we stated in 2021.
“We weren’t conscious it [sandpaper] was taken on the sphere to be tampered with. We noticed it on the massive display in Cape City. So far as the e book’s involved, I have not learn it and possibly will not learn it, in order that’s for Usman to elaborate on.
“It is positively disappointing that is what we’re speaking about heading into a extremely thrilling [Australian] summer season. Completely different individuals felt other ways about it on the time, all through and definitely by the final eight years.
“I believe Trav [Head] stated it the opposite day, that the group has modified rather a lot. We definitely look ahead to what’s developing. We’re not in 2018 anymore, are we, so the group for the time being’s nice.”
Khawaja has additionally stated in his e book that sandpaper was in use on the second Check at Port Elizabeth, however Starc stated that declare was the “first I used to be conscious of any of that going down in PE”.
Warner, who was banned for a yr after the incident, has backed Khawaja’s recollections, saying on Monday they had been “100% correct”.
Greenberg argued there was at all times more likely to be an absence of consensus about what happened within the collection.
“You find yourself on the similar intersection the place one particular person’s model of occasions contradict the others, and I am undecided what consequence individuals are looking for,” he added.
“I believe what individuals need is a single consequence that everybody is aligned up on, however I do not assume that is attainable on this event as a result of now we have such conflicting views from the identical second in time.”