When the much-maligned English publication, The Sun, released a video footage of its journalists going undercover and exposing the bookmarkers ring in the world cricket appeared, it shook the cricketing fraternity from its core.

Mud was thrown at every team and every tournament as two Indian businessman, Sobar Joban and Priyank Saxena, were supposedly in the middle of all of this. And now, Cricket Australia CEO, James Sutherland, has come out to clear the air to claim that all these allegations are baseless and without any evidence.

“What we heard from [ICC anti-corruption unit’s head] Alex Marshall, is that there’s no evidence, substance or justification based on the dossier of information the ICC’s received from the news outlet based on ICC intelligence in previous investigations,” Sutherland said in Perth.

While the Sun might have revealed the footage, it really lacks the convincing power necessary to make it believable. On top of that, the publication chose to blur out the names of the player involved in the rings, which makes the footage all the more susceptible to scrutiny.

Sutherland, too, believes that the video lacks the proper evidence.

“There’s no substance to these allegations or justification to suspect that this Test match or indeed the Ashes series as a whole is suspect to corrupt activities.”