CAPE TOWN: Australian cricketer Cameron Bancroft may have got away with his now infamous attempt to alter the condition of the ball in the third Test against South Africa at Newlands had he not panicked and stuffed the evidence down his trousers.
That is the belief of Alvin Naicker, the head of production at host broadcaster SuperSport and the man in the director’s chair who broke one of cricket’s greatest scandals.
Bancroft was caught on camera placing sticky yellow tape, which he used to pick up rough granules off the pitch, into the front of his pants when he believed his cheat had been spotted by the umpires.
The fall-out from the incident has cost Steve Smith and David Warner their positions, for the remainder of the match at least, and thrown both players’ future in the baggy green cap into doubt, leaving a nation seething.
