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JOHANNESBURG. – The shrewd cameraman who caught Australia’s cheating in the Test cricket match against South Africa at the weekend has revealed he wears a tailored three-piece suit to work – even in baking heat.

Little-known Zotani Oscar is now the talk of the sporting world after he filmed Cameron Bancroft rubbing yellow sticky tape over the ball.

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called the ball-tampering debacle a “shocking disappointment” and it has led to captain Steve Smith being banned for the final Test match against South Africa.

But dapper Oscar, who caught the scandal unfolding from behind the lens, says fans used to make fun of him for his dress sense before growing to love it.

And he has revealed his bizarre tradition of getting suited and booted on the boundary came about purely by chance. Oscar, who works for a South African TV channel, said: “In the season of 2007-08, when New Zealand was here [in South Africa], it happened that one of the cameramen got sick, while I was still working in the studio.

“Then my former technical director asked me to help out, with the other guy having to leave. I went wearing a suit and tie. And from there on he said he wanted to see me wearing that in every Test match. So it started like that. I only do it on the first day, when there is no chance of me having to pull rigs to pull cameras.” – The Sun.