NEW DELHI: Do you know who played a huge role in tipping off the TV crew at Newlands to zero in on suspicious activity during day three of the controversial third Test match between Australian and South Africa?
That would be Fanie de Villiers, the retired South African fast bowler doing commentary during the match for one of the broadcasters. On Monday, during a radio interview, de Villiers revealed how he instructed TV camera operators to keep their lenses trained on the Australians for ball tampering on Saturday, having suspected that they were upto something suspicious.
“I said earlier on, that if they could get reverse swing in the 26th, 27th, 28th over then they are doing something different from what everyone else does,” the 53-year-old told RSN Radio. “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 they started following Bancroft and they a