Many years ago when many of your surfers were not born,there came an English Cricket team to India,who had Peter Lever ,a fast bowler.He applied Vaseline on the ball.Today many of this generation are not aware about that incident ,especially in absence of electronic media. English Cricketers break laws with good manerrs and with holier than though attitude.
Re: Ball tampering
by Mac on Jan 07, 2010 08:19 PM
Same pommies cried foul when they lost test series against Pakistan in 1992. They were unable to play speedy swinging yorkers from Waqar Younis & Wasim Akram.
Re: Ball tampering
by S Shrikanth on Jan 07, 2010 10:02 PM
A correction(Trivia) --------------------
He was John Lever of England in 1975-76 series. He used to put vaseline in his headband and umpire Reuban had caught him in the 4th test. By that time England had won all three tests in Delhi, Calcutta and Madras. England lost the 4th test in Bangalore and just survived the 5th in Bombay as Keith Fletcher defied Indian fightback.
John's elder brother Peter retired from International cricket in 1973 feeling guilty of his bouncer that had hit NZ No. 11 Evan Chatfield. Chatfield was declared dead on the pitch but later got revived. Peter was so shocked that he declared immediate retimenet from cricket itself.
Re: Gavaskar's point vindicated
by S Shrikanth on Jan 07, 2010 10:10 PM
Gavaskar is a super idi0t on the earth. He only wants to be in news anyway. He has some personal issues with ICC as he had severely violated ICC code of conduct and had to leave the office of profit when he got exposed. So, his views may be more like a personal retaliation with ICC referee.
But the points put by De Villiers should be probed as he is a key witness and if Broad has done it, he should get severe punishment for ball tampering.
Since he is the son of ICC referee Stuart has escaped from serious punishment.Remember what happened to Sachin when he cleaned the dirt from the ball in South Africa?Referee Mike Dennes had created a huge controversy
Re: Gavaskar was right about Stuart
by S Shrikanth on Jan 07, 2010 10:07 PM
But Dalmia used his financial muscle power to shut Denness and saved Tendulkar. In the video Tendulkar was using his nails to scratch to get teh dirt out - this was a clear case of ball tampering. But Dalmia's threat in Singapore that he would pull out sponsors in the tournament, Denness had to bury the case.
If Stuart Broad has done something knowingly/unknowingly, he is guilty of ball tampering. De Villiers may not be all wrong and probe must happen against Broad.
Re: Gavaskar was right about Stuart
by Against Pseudos on Jan 08, 2010 07:01 AM
Kris:
Good point. It proves at least that ICC is not racist. It is just a case of Nepotism, which we are so used to in our daily lives that there is no point feigning surprise out here... :)
