Australia's Cameron Bancroft has conceded he messed with the ball amid the third Test against South Africa - and captain Steve Smith says he knew about the arrangement ahead of time.
TV footage indicated Bancroft take what he said was yellow tape out of his pant stash before rubbing the ball.
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The 25-year-old said after play he had been accused of trying to change the state of the ball.
Smith said it was a"big mistake" however included he would not remain down.
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He said the group's "initiative gathering" had talked about it and "thought it was an approach to get favorable position".
South Africa finished the third day in Cape Town on 238-5 in their second innings, a lead of 294 runs.
Television cameras got the minute Bancroft took what he said was yellow tape out of his pocket
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What else did they say?
Talking at a news meeting after the day's play, both Bancroft and Smith apologized.
"I will manage the harm that goes to my notoriety for being a result," Bancroft said. "I don't think I was forced. I was anxious about it on the grounds that there are several cameras around.
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"Lamentably I was in an unlucky spot. Be that as it may, I am responsible for my activities also. I'm not pleased with what has happened.
"I saw a chance to conceivably utilize some tape and get a few granules from the unpleasant fixes on the wicket and I figured an attempt to change the ball condition.
"It didn't work. The umpires didn't change the ball. When I was located on the screen having done that I froze a considerable amount and that clearly brought about me pushing [the tape] down my pants."
Smith included: "We settled on a poor decision. We profoundly lament our activities. Mentors weren't included. It was simply the players in the authority gathering.
"I can guarantee you it won't occur once more. It's the first run through this has happened.
"We will proceed onward from this and ideally take in something from it. I'm humiliated. I feel for Cam. It's not what the Australian cricket group is about. I am staggeringly sad.
"It's a poor reflection on everybody in that changing area and especially the pioneers in the gathering."
Bancroft addresses umpires Llong and Illingworth and demonstrates to them a dark fabric in his pocket
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How the episode unfurled
At the point when the ball was tossed to him, TV footage demonstrated Bancroft remove a protest from his pocket before rubbing the ball, at that point returning something in his pocket.
After footage of the occurrence was communicated, a message seemed, by all accounts, to be conveyed to him on the field. He put the tape down the front of his pants previously being addressed by on-field umpires Nigel Llong and Richard Illingworth.
By then he turned out his takes, uncovering just a dark fabric.
The umpires did not change the ball, and pictures of the episode on the extra large screen brought about some booing from observers.
Australia legend Shane Warne tweeted he was "exceptionally frustrated with the photos".
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Significant ball-altering occurrences
Britain captain Mike Atherton stood out as truly newsworthy in 1994 when he was blamed for ball-altering amid a Lord's Test against South Africa.
Atherton demanded he had placed earth in his pocket to dry his hands yet was fined £2,000.
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After seven years, amazing India batsman Sachin Tendulkar was given a suspended one-coordinate boycott by English match arbitrator Mike Denness subsequent to being discovered liable of ball-altering in light of TV footage amid the second Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth.
Tendulkar was appeared to evacuate a bit of grass, and the International Cricket Council inevitably chose he was cleaning the ball without the umpire's authorization as opposed to ball-altering, yet the accompanying third Test was announced informal as the Indian cricket board declined to acknowledge Denness as match ref.
Maybe the most acclaimed adventure happened at The Oval in 2006, when umpires Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove granted England five punishment pursues managing the Pakistan group had been blameworthy of doctoring the ball to help