Ball Tampering

Ball Tampering

Ball tampering. That thing cricketers do to alter the way the cricket ball moves - with dirt, with mints, even with the metal in their pants’ zippers. Some think of it as innovating but the ICC calls it cheating. Some iconic players have been caught messing with the ball while others came clean later that they did so too. Even someone like Imran Khan did it. He admitted in his autobiography that he uses bottle-tops to gouge cricket balls. He wrote, “The ball was not deviating at all…So I got the 12th man to bring on a bottle top and it started to move around a lot. I occasionally scratched the side…and lifted the seam.”

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