Australia Test captain Pat Cummins calls Khawaja's sandpapergate claims ‘complete and utter nonsense’

Cummins faced the media and reasserted his position that knowledge of the ball tampering plot was not widespread within the team Cummins insists he did not know of ball tampering plot in South Africa Pat Cummins has flatly denied Usman Khawaja’s claims that the entire team was implicated in the 2018 sandpaper scandal as “complete and utter nonsense” and “100% wrong” in a defiant appearance at a press conference a week after the allegations came to light. Appearing before dozens of reporters and cameras at Cricket NSW’s headquarters in Sydney, Cummins refuted the allegations aired in his former teammate’s book, Sabr, and said he had no knowledge of the ball tampering plot in South Africa.

Australia’s captain at the time Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner and opener Cameron Bancroft were handed long suspensions by Cricket Australia after the governing body’s short investigation into the incident. Khawaja alleges in his memoir that