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Pakistan former coach and currently International Cricket Council's Global Cricket Academy coach Mudassar Nazar has asserted that with the batting friendly pitches, bowlers are tempered to change the condition of the ball more these days.
"This is because the laws of the game as well the wickets favour the batsmen more today," Nazar told Gulf News. "It is really hard for a bowler at times to get wickets these days. There are restrictions on bowling bouncers and at times, boundaries are being shortened to help batsmen.”
"The pitches also favour batsmen. The laws need to be sympathetic to bowlers too. Even Twenty20, the latest version of the game, is in favour of the batsmen," he added. According to Nazar, bowlers are tampering with balls due to the success rate from such acts.
"Tampering [with] the ball often results in a team collapsing from 100 for no loss to 135 all out. It is natural that a player may attempt to push the law. It not only happens in cricket but even rugby and even baseball," he added.
Ball-tampering normally results from deliberately throwing the ball into the ground for the purpose of roughening it up, applying any artificial substance to the ball, and applying any non-artificial substance for any purpose other than to polish the ball, lifting or otherwise interfering with any of the seams of the ball, scratching the surface of the ball with finger or thumb nails or any implement.
But recently Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi's distinguished play with the ball would have drawn every one's attention around the cricketing world when he put the entire ball in his mouth – which force umpires to replace the ball straight away. He was infact caught by TV camera when he was tampering the ball by biting it with his teeth in the dramatic fifth and final ODI at the WACA Ground in Perth last week.
"Bowlers should master the art of reverse swing instead of attempting to generate swing through tampering the ball. It is not easy to get wickets by bowling yorkers or using other methods. They should learn to utilise different conditions too," said Nazar.
Pakistan former coach and currently International Cricket Council's Global Cricket Academy coach Mudassar Nazar has asserted that with the batting friendly pitches, bowlers are tempered to change the condition of the ball more these days.
"This is because the laws of the game as well the wickets favour the batsmen more today," Nazar told Gulf News. "It is really hard for a bowler at times to get wickets these days. There are restrictions on bowling bouncers and at times, boundaries are being shortened to help batsmen.”
"The pitches also favour batsmen. The laws need to be sympathetic to bowlers too. Even Twenty20, the latest version of the game, is in favour of the batsmen," he added. According to Nazar, bowlers are tampering with balls due to the success rate from such acts.
"Tampering [with] the ball often results in a team collapsing from 100 for no loss to 135 all out. It is natural that a player may attempt to push the law. It not only happens in cricket but even rugby and even baseball," he added.
Ball-tampering normally results from deliberately throwing the ball into the ground for the purpose of roughening it up, applying any artificial substance to the ball, and applying any non-artificial substance for any purpose other than to polish the ball, lifting or otherwise interfering with any of the seams of the ball, scratching the surface of the ball with finger or thumb nails or any implement.
But recently Pakistan's flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi's distinguished play with the ball would have drawn every one's attention around the cricketing world when he put the entire ball in his mouth – which force umpires to replace the ball straight away. He was infact caught by TV camera when he was tampering the ball by biting it with his teeth in the dramatic fifth and final ODI at the WACA Ground in Perth last week.
"Bowlers should master the art of reverse swing instead of attempting to generate swing through tampering the ball. It is not easy to get wickets by bowling yorkers or using other methods. They should learn to utilise different conditions too," said Nazar.
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