India, Oct. 8 -- South Africa and Australia kick off their three-Test series at Kingsmead on Friday. This is Australia's first Test visit to South Africa since the infamous, sandpapergate series in 2018. To jog one's memory, what happened at Newlands was this: Cameron Bancroft, in complicity with captain Steve Smith and David Warner, used sandpaper secretly to tamper with the ball to be able to assist pacers with reverse swing.

With the first Test set to begin tomorrow, the sandpapergate is being discussed at length all over the global media. Alvin Naicker, the man in charge that day of SuperSport's live coverage, reveals to BBC Sport, that catching Bancroft in the act was accidental. His team was doing its regular work, just when it was...