Tim Paine’s new e book reveals allegations South Africa tampered with the ball throughout controversial sequence

Tim Paine accused South Africa of tampering with the ball in a check match shortly after Australian cricket was rocked by a sandpaper scandal, claiming the apply was coated up by match broadcasters.

Paine made explosive claims in her autobiography, The Paid Value, with the previous Take a look at captain turning into the primary participant to raise the lid on the 2018 Cape City Take a look at in a retelling e book.

Paine turned down any suggestion of a full-team assembly round plans to have Cameron Bancroft use sandpaper on the ball within the third Take a look at of the sequence in opposition to South Africa.

And, he mentioned, he was left surprised and his coronary heart dropped when replayed movies confirmed Bancroft hiding the sandpaper in his pants earlier than being spoken to by the umpires.

“I used to be considering, ‘What f**okay’,” Paine wrote. “All of us really feel scared.”

Throughout a prolonged chapter on the 2018 tour, Paine took nice pains to level out that tampering with the ball is regular in cricket and that it’s the sport’s soiled little secret.

Nevertheless, he admits the usage of sandpaper is “subsequent stage” and “embarrassing”, with conventional tampering usually by way of means corresponding to throwing a ball on the bottom.

It doesn’t matter what, he mentioned, he was livid when he watched South Africa allegedly pull off the ball’s seam within the following check.

“I noticed it occur within the fourth Take a look at of that sequence,” Paine wrote.

“Give it some thought. In spite of everything that occurred in Cape City, after all of the headlines and the ban and so forth.

“I used to be standing on the finish of the pitcher within the subsequent check when a shot appeared on the display of a South African participant in the course of the sport with a big crack within the ball.