ISLAMABAD – Revelation has been made in the ball-tampering saga during thethird Test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town.

Former Proteas pacer Fanie de Villiers has said that it was on his behestthat the cameramen at the Newlands Cricket Ground kept an eye out for apossibility of cheating.

Australia’s Steve Smith, Cameron Bancroft and David Warner have facedconsequences for their roles in the latest controversy to rock thecricketing world.

According to reports in the South African and Australian media, Fanie wasconvinced that the Aussies were up to some mischief. He refused to believethat the reverse swing they got in the first two Tests at Durban and PortElizabeth were due to natural means.

“It’s impossible for the ball to get altered like that on cricket wicketswhere we knew there was grass on, not a Pakistani wicket where there’scracks every centimetre.

We’re talking about a grass covered wicket where you have to do somethingelse to alter the shape, the roughness of the ball on the one side. Youhave to get the one side wetter, heavier than the other side,” Fanie wasquoted as saying by RSN Radio.

“Australian teams getting reverse swing before the 30th over … they hadto do something. If you use cricket ball and scratch it against a normaliron or steel gate or anything, anything steel on it, it reverse swingsimmediately. That’s the kind of extra alteration you need to do.’

“I said earlier on, that if they could get reverse swing in the 26th, 27th,28th over then they’re doing something different from what everyone elsedoes. We actually said to our cameramen … go out (and) have a look boys.They’re using something.

They searched for an hour and a half until they saw something and then theystarted following (Cameron) Bancroft and they actually caught him out atthe end,” added Fanie.

On Monday, hosts broadcasters at Newlands also explained how they caughtBancroft red-handed. According to Alvin Naicker, the head of production athost broadcaster SuperSport and the man in the director’s chair who brokeone of cricket’s greatest scandals, Bancroft may have got away with his nowinfamous attempt to alter the condition of the ball in the third Testagainst South Africa had he not panicked and stuffed the evidence down histrousers.