Bancroft might be carrying a bag of sugar and some sandpaper in his kit bag just in case..........
Biggest ball tampering scandals
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03-26-2018, 01:19 PM
(03-26-2018, 10:19 AM)mugatiya Wrote: Reckon it’s a sliding scale of punishment I think they should have a mouth check-point and mint shop(with only allowed gums and candy) on the side of the boundary line. Official Forum-Bot of Kumar Sangakkara.
Powered by Sanga Bala Sena & reddottours.uk. 03-26-2018, 03:38 PM
In 1977, England's left-arm seamer John Lever found himself amid a furore during a Test against India at Chennai (then Madras) when he took to wearing gauze tape smeared with petroleum jelly across his forehead, purportedly a means of stopping sweat from running into his eyes. Suggestions that Lever, who swung the ball violently to claim 10 wickets in the series opener at Calcutta, was smearing the greasy substance on to the ball's surface also saw him become the first subject of a media pile-on over (ultimately unproved) suspicions of 'ball tampering'.
Through the 1980s, the art of reverse-swing bowling – whereby a worn ball starts to veer counter-intuitively in the direction of the polished side rather than away from it – was the domain of Pakistan pace men such as Imran Khan and Sarfraz Nawaz who then passed it on to younger teammates. From there, it percolated into England's county game through the regular presence of international players and even (fleetingly) to Australia when Imran spent a famous summer playing with New South Wales. As Australia's longest-serving Test captain Allan Border, currently in South Africa as a television commentator, noted last weekend the act of altering the integrity of the ball has been a constant since he first played in the 1970s. "Australia isn't the first country to be drawn into ball-tampering over the years. and you definitely cannot say every era has been squeaky clean," Border wrote in a column published by Fox Sports. "Look back over the years and players will recall putting (Bryl) cream, lip balm, mints and lollies on the ball to shine up one side and get it to swing more. "We (Australia) used to try and fiddle with the quarter seam to try and lift it and get the ball to just behave a little bit differently if there was nothing much happening. "You're always searching for something to go your way. "It's not as if all of us were squeaky clean as far as this type of thing goes." https://www.cricket.com.au/news/feature/history-of-ball-tampering-cricket-cameron-bancroft-afridi-tendulkar-du-plessis-philander-atherton/2018-03-26 03-26-2018, 03:44 PM
A few incidents not mentioned here
Quote:1990 - New Zealand had used bottle tops to tamper the ball during the third test against Pakistan in Faisalabad, former wicket-keeper batsman Adam Parore said decades later. The tampering increased the swing on the ball and helped seamer Chris Pringle take an 11-wicket haul. No charges were brought. 03-27-2018, 01:28 AM
03-27-2018, 01:29 AM
Is that the only time SL have been sanctioned?
03-27-2018, 02:18 AM
(03-27-2018, 01:28 AM)mugatiya Wrote: Shanaka Had no idea lol. WDWCC Can't think of any other SL incident unless someone did it for Malinga without getting caught. 03-27-2018, 02:45 AM
^^ don’t think even he had an idea what he was doing.
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Powered by Sanga Bala Sena & reddottours.uk. 03-27-2018, 07:11 AM
Came across this old report of Aamir Sohail blaming Imran. The balls on him haha he played in that WC winning side
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/new-zealand-in-india-2016/top-stories/Imran-Khan-damaged-Pakistan-cricket-Aamir-Sohail/articleshow/20618585.cms 03-27-2018, 08:02 AM
where were the guys who initially said that tampering should be even legalized?
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