ICC should let bowlers 'prepare' the ball - Donald

[manee]

ICC should let bowlers 'prepare' the ball - Donald | South Africa Cricket News | Cricinfo.com

Donald isn't the first fast bowler to make this case; in the mid-1990s, Sir Richard Hadlee had also asked for ball-tampering to be legalised. "As long as the bowlers or fielders use whatever means they have on their persons, I don't see anything wrong with it. I'm talking about the use of a finger nail to scratch the ball, not bottle tops or those sorts of things," Hadlee wrote in a newspaper column at the time.

This sort of 'tampering' seems reasonable to me and could help prevent the shift of the game towards the batsman. To see the ball hooping around corners would be perfect for spectators and would really give highly skilled swing bowlers such as Jimmy Anderson the wickets that, perhaps, they deserve.

Edit: I wrote an article on the issue, check it out here

 

[Ollie_H]

Yeah I was just reading this and wondered how long it would take to be put onto a thread.

Personally I feel it's a fairly good idea, It is a very batsmen dominated game at the moment, and the pitches are slowly becoming flatter and flatter. It could re invigorate bowling in the game!

 

[Leicester Fox]

I think it's mental.

 

[0601731]

ya i dont agree with it,changing the condition of the ball on purpose should always be considered cheating.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I'm saying yes, but I'm a bowler, so I'm a bit biased...

 

[Tejas Tendulkar]

I think that ball-tampering should be allowed to ensure that cricket does not become highly biased towards the batsman, but they should only use fingernails and other things which the players carry onto the field, rather than things like bottle caps. It also means that the players will have to be checked for these sort of things before they go onto the field.

 

[Tejas Tendulkar]

I agree with Manee and Holdenator, but the players will have to be checked before they are allowed to take the field.

 

[evertonfan]

I bet Inzi's gutted about his retirement now.

 

[Cricketman]

LOL .

Yeah, I think it should be allowed to an extent.

 

[leftarmlegspin]

If teams/groundsmen are going to keep preparing the sort of pitches we saw in West Indies earlier in the year, or Pakistan, then yes I would agree. Why should bowlers have to toil for 130+ overs, knowing that they won't get the opposition all-out and it's just a case of keeping going until they declare, or feel like playing a few shots.

 

[SciD]

looks like bowlers will have new Sponsor.

 

[pcfan123]

Its just not cricket

 

[Aditya]

No idea but it should not be allowed richard hadlee done that i am shocked about it.

 

[manee]

ya i dont agree with it,changing the condition of the ball on purpose should always be considered cheating.

So can we no longer shine the ball on our trousers as that is changing the condition of the ball?

 

[playkid12]

Should Ball Tampering be Legalized? Allan Donald thinks so.

Link to Article:
ICC should let bowlers 'prepare' the ball - Donald | South Africa Cricket News | Cricinfo.com


After reading, should ball tampering be legalized seeing how the game is increasingly favoring batsmen?