India, Nov. 13 -- More than eight years have passed since the ball-tampering row in the 2018 Cape Town Test between Australia and South Africa. The sandpapergate emerged as one of the biggest scandals in Australian sport, for which hefty punishment was handed out to Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft.

The row was a thing of the past, but the controversy gained fresh spotlight with the release of Usman Khawaja's autobiography titled 'Sabr'. The former Australian opener claimed that the entire team knew about the ploy and Bancroft, Smith and Warner were hard done by Cricket Australia.

The entire controversy unfolded during the third Test between South Africa and Australia at Newlands in 2018. The TV cameras picked up Bancroft ...