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Tim Paine has recalled the "what the f---" infinitesimal the broader Australian side realised their teammates were tampering with the ball.
In his caller publication The Price Paid, a communicative of life, cricket and lessons learned, Paine said nobody connected the tract that time successful Cape Town successful 2018 - including the Proteas - were acceptable for what was astir to happen.
"Everyone retired determination was shocked erstwhile they looked up connected the large surface and saw Cameron Bancroft with a portion of sandpaper successful his hand," Paine wrote.
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"I was stunned. We each were. I tin fto you successful connected the information that implicit my years successful the crippled I'd heard speech astir guys taping tiny pieces of sandpaper onto their fingers, but this was adjacent level. It was a Test lucifer and it was connected the large surface and it looked terrible.
"My bosom sank, I was thinking, 'what the f---?' A consciousness of dread came implicit america all."
In an interrogation with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age up of the merchandise of the book, Paine said helium was successful agreeance with South African Faf du Plessis, who has claimed successful his ain publication released this week that everyone was shot tampering, and it was cricket's "dark secret".
"I deliberation a batch of the things helium writes astir successful his publication are successful excavation astir that benignant of thing," Paine said.
"At the clip a batch of teams were doing thing to tamper with the ball.
"Obviously, successful that series, it went to the utmost and present clearly, lessons person been learned and the full behaviour astir that's changed.
"It took a batch of a batch of hard work, and rebuilding. But I deliberation if you look astatine the metallic lining retired of what happened there, it has changed the behaviour of cricketers astir the world. Certainly, I haven't seen it since."
Having lone been recalled successful to the Test broadside successful the preceding Australian summer, Paine said helium was was amazed astatine the level of hostility successful that South African series, and admitted "it went excessively far".
"I recovered that to beryllium a truly aggravated bid successful presumption of the verbals retired connected the ground," helium said.
"Obviously, Test cricket is competitive, but I thought that bid was getting adjacent (to the the edge) and the informing signs were determination that it was getting a interaction excessively aggressive.
"Faf says successful his publication they would effort and bully the bullies, and what you saw determination was them trying to combat occurrence with fire, and it conscionable tipped implicit the borderline successful a fig of ways. And sandpaper, obviously, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
"I fishy cipher volition ever beryllium satisfied they cognize the afloat communicative of however we got to this place. I'm not definite I adjacent recognize myself.
"There was a batch of things going connected successful that bid that, looking back, weren't successful the close tone of the game. And I deliberation if had we had our clip again, we'd astir apt propulsion backmost connected immoderate of that stuff. I deliberation some teams would successful presumption of however we were benignant of going astatine each different and the animosity betwixt the 2 groups.
"It was perfectly competitory and a win-at-all-costs mentality ... it went excessively far."
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