A senior International Cricket Council anti-corruption investigator has dismissed a claim of Australian player involvement in spot-fixing.
The investigator, Alan Peacock, appeared in a London court a day after the claim was made in a covert tape recording of sports agent Mazhar Majeed taken by an undercover journalist.
Majeed said on the tape that Australian players could fix part of the matches.
Peacock told the court there was no evidence that the Australians had been involved in match fixing.
The claim surfaced on Monday at the spot-fixing trial of ex-Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif.
It prompted an angry reaction from Cricket Australia, with chief executive James Sutherland calling it "baseless" and "outlandish" and expressing concern that Australian players had been unfairly maligned.
