Former South Africa fast bowler Fanie de Villiers said that it is "absolutely impossible" that Australia's bowlers did not know about the ball-tampering tactics employed in the third Test against South Africa in Cape Town in 2018.
De Villiers was part of the commentary team for the match and alerted the television crew which eventually led to Cameron Bancroft being caught by the cameras using a foreign object on the ball.
"It's absolutely impossible for bowlers not to know what's going on the ball, because you are the person that scrutinises it, you are the person that's looking at it, you are the person that's cleaning it, you are the person that knows exactly that one side looks this way because of looking after (the ball) and the other side doesn't look a specific way because of the grass on the wicket. So it's absolutely nonsense," de Villiers, who played 18 Tests and 83 ODIs and took 180 international wickets, told The Indian Express.
