The fact is that all teams, in dry bowling conditions, try to get the ball to reverse-swing, and some are better than others. Some umpires, having suspicions but no evidence, will change the ball under the pretext of it having gone out of shape, surreptitiously using the measuring rings used in women's cricket, for a smaller ball, rather than the usual ones.
FIRESHOT JUST GOES TO GOOGLE STORE TV
In the second and third Tests of the recently-concluded Tests between South Africa and Australia, reverse played a key role in the outcome of the matches, with each side insinuating malpractice by the other.īut again, despite the close scrutiny that television brings to matches these days, and bearing in mind that when there is suspicion TV directors are on the look-out, no evidence has been turned up. What is now understood by ball-tampering, though, is the careful treatment of the ball into a condition that will enable it, with the aid of a skilled operator, to reverse-swing. We all know the stories about lifting the seam or using grease to help polish the ball, and the way that generally umpires tended to ignore such actions, or at best, offer a quiet word. The very issue of ball-tampering is one that sends people into fits of indignation the levels of which transgressions of another nature do not seem to reach. No sanctions were applied, such as the addition of a five-run penalty at the time (it can hardly be applied retrospectively), and although the appropriate law, referencing fair and unfair play, says that an official once-only warning has to be given to the captain, none was given, just as none was given to Stuart Broad on this occasion.
![fireshot just goes to google store fireshot just goes to google store](https://i0.wp.com/www.smartprix.com/bytes/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FireShot-Capture-059-INKHUNTER-try-tattoo-designs-_-https___play.google.com_store_apps_details.png)
The last time, at The Oval last year, during a Champions Trophy match, Aleem Dar changed a ball in an action without explanation but heavily loaded with innuendo. S torm in a cup of tea, as Ken Barrington used to say, or heinous crime against cricket? The suggestion that a ball used by England in the third one-day international on Wednesday had suffered "unnatural deterioration" in the opinion of the umpire Marais Erasmus is one that has been visited before.