Praveen Kumar Discusses Ball-Tampering In Cricket: Former Indian national cricket team seam bowler Praveen Kumar has revealed that all international cricket teams, including India, are involved in ball-tampering.
Ball-tampering is changing the condition of a cricket ball via unnatural means. This could be done in several ways, the most common of them being scratching the ball from one side with nails, bottle caps, or sandpaper. This helps the ball to get some reverse swing in the later parts of the match.
Praveen Kumar Discusses Ball-Tampering In Cricket
Tampering with the ball is a very serious charge with several cricketers receiving massive punishments for it. A recent and infamous example, Australian captain Steve Smith, vice-captain David Warner, and batter Cameron Bancroft were charged with ball-tampering in a Test match against South Africa in 2018.
As per the Praveen Kumar Discusses Ball-Tampering In Cricket, Bancroft was caught roughing up the ball with sandpaper and was banned for 9 months following the match. While Smith and Warner, who took full responsibility as leaders in the team, were banned for two years from any professional cricket. This was known as the Sandpapergate.
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In order to Praveen Kumar Discusses Ball-Tampering In Cricket, The 37-year-old recently appeared on Lallantop, where he discussed how every team is behind the idea of ball-tampering and does it to get some reverse swing.
During the interview, Praveen claimed that all teams, including India, do ball-tampering. But the team that does it the most is Pakistan.
“Everyone does it a little bit. But, Pakistan bowlers do it a bit more. They would scratch it from one side, but one must know how to use that skill, too. If I scratch the ball and give it to someone, one must have the skills to reverse-swing it. One has to learn that,”
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Pakistan’s national team was involved in a massive ball-tampering scandal as well. In the fourth Test match in a 2006 Test series between Pakistan and England, umpires ruled that the Pakistan team had been involved in ball-tampering. Five runs were deducted from their total and England was offered replacement balls.
The Pakistani team protested the decision and did not take the field. Sometime later, the umpires declared England the winner of the match by forfeit.
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