Umpires must reverse South Africa’s dodgy ball work : Dave Warner

[Cricket_Hacker]

OPENING batsman David Warner says Australia will seek clarification from match referees over South Africa - in particular AB de Villiers - pushing the boundaries on scuffing up the ball. Warner’s explosive comments, which come just days before the series-deciding third Test begins in Cape Town on Saturday night, allege excessive ball scuffing may be behind South Africa’s fast bowlers’ superior ability to bowl reverse swing. Warner said South Africa’s ability to swing the old ball was one of the major differences between the two teams as South Africa levelled the series 1-1 with a 231-run victory in the second Test. “I think it comes down to the umpires warning both teams not to throw the ball into the wicket which you generally try and do,” Warner told Sky Sports Radio. “They did it better than what we did, or more obvious than what we did. At the end of the day it comes down to who can do that the best and work on the ball. “We worked on the ball a lot in England and we got the ball to reverse a lot there and we got the ball reversing a little at home and this time it just didn’t work for us because the outfield was probably a little bit moist under the ground and day one it was obviously quite hard to get it to go reverse as well. “That’s what happens in the game. You have to try and work out how to do that. Sometimes that happens.” Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. The 27-year-old said the Australian team will particularly make umpires aware of South African wicket keeper AB de Villiers potentially overworking the ball. “We were actually questioning whether or not AB de Villiers would get the ball in his hand and with his glove wipe the rough side every ball,” he said. “That’s another thing we have to try and bring up with the umpires.” Meanwhile, Warner says all-rounder Shane Watson’s chances of being fit to bowl in the third Test are improving – as are his chances of being selected. “I’m pretty sure he’s running at 100 per cent at the moment and he’s doing everything right to put his hand up for selection.”

http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/south-africa-view/umpires-must-reverse-south-africas-dodgy-ball-work-says-australian-test-opener-dave-warner/story-fnl8vbgq-1226836763076

[horizonspeaks]

I see it here - http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2014/2/25/david-warner-calls-for-closer-umpire-inspection-of-balls There are two issues - 1) glove work by WK 2) throwing the ball in the pitch #2 employed by both teams and got warnings from umpires. But #1 is done by SA only and they got away with it. I am not sure if #1 is illegal, so other teams are probably missing a trick here.

[ravishingravi]

Yes. As I was watching it live, this was my first thoughts. SA were desperate and we know what they can resort to.

[gaurav92]

Yes. As I was watching it live' date=' this was my first thoughts. SA were desperate and we know what they can resort to.[/quote'] ++ And we all knew what Du Plezip is capable of :D

[Iconoclast]

The only thing that is going to be reversing is the ball crashing in to the stumps. Working the ball is a part of the game ... especially on dead flat pitches.

[FischerTal]

how is it that people forget zipgate so easily? the saffas have done this before, so it wouldnt be surprising if they did something shady again

[saneindian]

And what explains the Aussie capitulation in the 1st innings on a docile pitch? Give credit to the Saffers for bowling well despite being one bowler short and Steyn rose to the occasion. His prowess with a reverse swinging ball was on display after a long time and the Aussies had no clue.

[IndianRenegade]

Whether AB's glove work did the tick or not. The Aussies have put the pressure on SA by coming clean on their discontent. Contrast that to India. Wagner keeps bowling no balls, India does nothing... :om:

[Scarves]

:|

[Old guy]

And the whining starts....this is not how great Australian side behaved

[Old guy]

And what explains the Aussie capitulation in the 1st innings on a docile pitch? Give credit to the Saffers for bowling well despite being one bowler short and Steyn rose to the occasion. His prowess with a reverse swinging ball was on display after a long time and the Aussies had no clue.

Totally ...they need to accept the loss and work hard cos next game will be even harder

[rajmarie]

The way I read it...Warner himself admits...that his team worked on the ball..or lets say tamper with it (actually he admits that they did good tamper in both Ashes series). But he is pissed off that in this 2nd test...SA did better tampering then their own bowlers. Incredible. Except Hadding wicket...& to some extent Smith one...the rest of the Aus wicket was not due to reverse swing. Anyway...Thanks Warner....now we know that Aus tamper with cricket ball & still fail to extract reverse swing. LOL

[bharat297]

This is typical Aussie mind games. It's been a few years since they've done this but the only purpose of this is to make the south Africans focus on these comments rather than their prep. We'll see if this works. Sent from my HTC_PN071 using Tapatalk