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

• Cummins insists he did not know of ball tampering plot in South Africa

• ‘No masterplan around using illegal methods,’ Cummins says

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.