SA tampered with the ball in 2018 Test: Paine

Former Australia captain Tim Paine has claimed in his book that South Africans were involved in ball tampering in the Johannesburg Test which followed the infamous sandpaper-gate scandal in Cape Town Test that rocked Australian and world cricket in 2018.

Paine claimed in his new book that the Proteas had also indulged in ball tampering in the fourth Test. "I saw it happen in the fourth Test of that series," Paine wrote in his new autobiography 'The Paid Price.' "Think about that. After everything that had happened in Cape Town, after all the headlines and bans and carry on.

"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 huge crack at the ball," he added.