Ball Tampering - The Elephant in the room no one wants to talk about?

[Lurker]

Isn't it interesting how half-ar$ed cricketers like Afridi keep yapping about ball-tampering?? When was the last time you heard Sachin Tendulkar or Brian Lara or Ricky Ponting talk about ball tampering?? Or making them legal. They don't, because they don't care. Tampered or not the ball does not hold any risk for them and they would be successful in any era. It is idiotic cricketers like Afridi who basically owe their averages(25 or thereabouts) to this kind of nonsense. Maybe he should improve his bowling and batting instead of suggesting how to have your ball and eat it too. Jackass.

[Sachinism]

have u read trescothick’s autobiography?

NO but I guess you're talking about murray mints Still don't feel its as common on the international level as he made it out to be. But currently I'm just enjoying Afridi's statements, they get better and better :haha:

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Should ball tampering be legalised? Some former players say allowing bowlers to alter the state of the ball will give them a chance in a game that has been slanted towards the batsmen over the last 20 years. What's do you feel? Tell us More... Should ball tampering be legalised? Last updated on: February 04, Shahid Afridi is not the only cricketer who says all teams tamper with the ball. His countrymen, World Cup-winning former captain Imran Khan and another ex-skipper Rameez Raja also feel the same. Afridi, who was banned for two Twenty20 matches for tampering with the ball in the fifth and final One-Day International against Australia in Perth claims that all teams resort to such tactics to exploit the conditions to their advantage. Imran backed Afridi's claim, saying only the sub-continental teams are punished for the offence. 'It is nothing new. When we were playing and developed reverse swing, we were accused of being cheats and tampering with the ball, but when the English and other bowlers did it became an art,' he said. Australian pacer Shaun Tait too backs Afridi's claim. He says though he is yet to see it himself, there is little doubt that such cheating tactics are not new in international cricket. 'I am sure there could be players that do it, but not that I have seen. I have never engaged in biting the ball,' Tait said. Some of the game's former players have even called for the malpractice to be legalised to put bowlers at equal footing with batsmen. They say allowing bowlers to alter the state of the ball will give them a chance in a game that has been slanted towards the batsmen over the last 20 years. What's do you feel?

[achilles]

No.

[akshayxyz]

Yes it should be allowed, it will give rise to a whole new small-scale ( or perhaps large scale) industry. People will innovate on new methods / machinery to tamper the ball. Teams will have a new specialist position - ball (t)emperor. That will allow scope of innovation in batting gadgetry also - we might as well see rocket powered batting shoes or something - to counter the various possible curves of the ball bowled. (elliptical, parabolic, sine-wave or something) Who would not want to see Matrix-style batting / fielding.. While Afridi will still be biting/licking the balls - rest will graduate to high-tech tempering. Guys - accept it, tampering is the future to save the cricket. /s

[vvvslaxman]

No. That will be the dumbest thing to do.

[riya]

Legalising ball tampering is difficult.That would be an absolute mockery of the red cherry or white cherry.