Australian opening batsman Cameron Bancroft landed himself at the center of a ball-tampering controversy on Saturday when he was caught on camera appearing to hi𝔍de a foreign object down his trousers, moments before the umpires came to question him about working on the ball.
While fiel♑ding on Day 3 of the third Test against South Africa in Cape 🌠Town, Bancroft was seen rubbing his hands over the ball shortly before the Tea break.
As umpires Nigel Llong and Richard Illingworth ღmet mid-pitch to discuss the incident, Bancroft was then seen appearing to take a small, yellow object out of his pocket and drop it down his trousers.
When questioned by the umpires꧂, Bancroft pulled a black sunglasses cover out🌳 of his pocket.
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Wow so stupid! Cameron Bancroft, why, oh why?
— Vishal S S Mehra (@weshalltalkcric)
Enjoy the rest of your holiday in Sout💖h Africa ✌🏼
— Simon Harmer (@Simon_Harmer_)
The umpire෴s took no action and did not change the ball. There were boos from a capacity crowd at Newlands when the incident was shown on the b𒁏ig screen at the ground
