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#AceNewsDesk – Tim Paine has accused South Africa of ball tampering in the Test match immediately after Australian cricket was rocked by the sandpaper-gate scandal, claiming match broadcasters covered up the act.

Paine made the explosive claims in his autobiography, The Price Paid, with the former Test captain becoming the first player to lift the lid on the 2018 Cape Town Test in a tell-all book………..Paine denies any suggestion of a team meeting around the plan for Cameron Bancroft to use sandpaper on the ball during the third Test of the series against South Africa.

And, he said, he was stunned and his heart sank as replays showed Bancroft hiding the sandpaper in his pants before being spoken to by umpires.

“I was thinking, ‘What the f**k’,” Paine wrote. “A sense of dread came over us all.”

In a lengthy chapter on the 2018 tour, Paine was at pains to point out that ball tampering was commonplace in cricket and that it was the sport’s dirty little secret.

However, he conceded using sandpaper was “next level” and “shameful”, with traditional tampering usually via means such as throwing the ball into the ground.

Regardless, he says, he was left furious when he saw South Africa allegedly pulling apart the seam of the ball in the following Test………….Du Plessis used a mint to shine the ball to make it swing in late 2016 in Australia, and was fined 100 percent of his match fee when found guilty of tampering in the Hobart Test, won by South Africa.

“I saw it happen in the fourth Test of that series,” Paine wrote.

“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.

“The television director, who had played an active role in catching out 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.”

In excerpts of Faf du Plessis’s soon-to-be-released autobiography, the former Proteas skipper admits both he and his own team have been guilty of tampering in the past.

“In our team, we just thought, ‘Nah! Ball tampering and reverse swing have always been there.’ In fact, it was probably more prevalent when camera technology wasn’t as good as it is today,” du Plessis wrote in an excerpt from his book carried in News Corp papers.

Paine said that it felt like Australia were being “provoked” throughout the series amid crowd abuse of players’ families, with David Warner a particular target.

The wicketkeeper also claimed that Warner had every right to be upset after he thought Quinton de Kock had made a comment about his wife, Candice, before the infamous stairway confrontation in Kingsmead.

“I was the one holding them apart and I know how it unfolded,” Paine said.

Paine has regularly called for Warner’s lifetime leadership ban to be lifted, claiming Cricket Australia seized an opportunity to punish him after the previous year’s pay talks.

And, he admitted, he felt as if the side had let the opener down before the Cape Town debacle.

“I don’t know how [Warner] kept his cool in those situations and, on reflection, I feel the team let him down by not offering him more support,” Paine wrote.

“I can see now he was masking a lot of pain and we should have known it.”Tim Paine fronting the media after standing down as Australian Test captain.(ABC News: Luke Bowden)none

‘I was hung out to dry’

Paine also said he was abandoned and “hung out to dry” by Cricket Australia when explicit text messages — that ultimately cost him the top job — were on the verge of becoming public.

He detailed how he “fell apart” following the scandal, lost weight, and turned to grueling runs as a form of self-punishment.

The 37-year-old stood down as captain in November last year and took time away from the game after a 2017 text message exchange with Cricket Tasmania colleague Renee Ferguson was aired.

Paine describes a phone conversation with Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive Nick Hockley and an unnamed public relations consultant on the eve of the story being published.

He said it became obvious that CA was no longer going to back him as captain.

“I felt they were driven by the need to protect their image … they were hanging me out to dry,” Paine wrote.

Paine drafted a resignation letter the next morning and later fronted the media at a snap press conference in Hobart.

“I was prepared to cop the flak for what I did but, in my mind, Cricket Australia had abandoned me and made it look like they thought I’d sexually harassed someone,” he wrote in the book.

Paine was cleared of wrongdoing in relation to the text messages by a CA investigation in 2018 and maintains the exchange was consensual.

He became Test captain the same year, after Steve Smith was stripped of the role over the ball-tampering incident.

The day after Paine announced his resignation, CA chair Richard Freudenstein told media the current board would not have endorsed him as captain after the investigation.

“The one thing that got me later was when Cricket Australia said that they would have handled it differently to the way it was done in 2017,” Paine wrote.

“The reality was they were happy to defend me and accept I hadn’t breached their code of conduct as long as it was kept private.

“If the story hadn’t run, I would still be captain and, if Cricket Australia had handled it like they said they would, I would still be playing for Australia.

“For seven days they tried to quash the story and the only time it became different was when it was going to become public.”

Paine said he asked for a copy of the investigation’s integrity report but has never received one, and also asked for copies to be given to media.

Paine took a break from the sport about a week after resigning as Test captain but has since returned to play Sheffield Shield cricket for Tasmania this season.

He revealed that he sought professional help for his mental health and felt so ashamed about what he had inflicted on his wife, Bonnie, his two children and family.

“I couldn’t control my thoughts, it was shocking. No matter how many times I tried to pull myself together, my mind just fell apart,” Paine wrote.

“I had some horrendous thoughts in that period. Like, maybe, it would be easier for people if I wasn’t here.”

Ferguson has taken legal action against Cricket Tasmania, alleging she was sexually harassed by several former colleagues.

AAP

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