Tim Paine accuses South Africa of ball-tampering right after sandpapergate scandal

4 years after the infamous Cape Town Test which sent shockwaves into the cricketing world as the Australians engaged in ball-tampering, former Australian Test skipper Tim Paine recently admitted that he saw South Africans doing the same in the subsequent Test.

In his autobiography, The Paid Price, Paine documented "I saw it happen in the fourth Test of that series. After everything that had happened in Cape Town, after all the headlines and bans. I was standing at the bowlers' end in the next Test when a shot came up on the screen of a South African player at mid-off having a massive crack at the ball."

The ex-skipper added that the television director, who had played an active role in catching Cam, immediately pulled the shot off the screen. "We went to the umpires about it, which might seem a bit poor, but we'd been slaughtered and were convinced they'd been up to it since the first Test. But the footage got lost. As it would," Paine added.

That series proved to be a blot on Cricket Australia as Cameron Bancroft was caught altering the condition of the ball with a sandpaper. Later, it was revealed that then-Test skipper Steven Smith and vice-captain David Warner were also involved in the same, which resulted in a year-long ban for them.

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