Someone explain to me please???

Question

As im not a cricket person i dont understand how the Pakistan team "tampered with the ball".
Did they replace it with a different ball or what exactly did they do???
The papers dont explain it too well.

Answer 1

In the sport of cricket, ball tampering is the common name for an action in which a fielder illegally alters the condition of the ball. Under Law 42, subsection 3 of the Laws of Cricket, the ball may be polished without the use of an artifical substance, may be dried with a towel if it is wet, and have mud removed from it under supervision; all other actions which alter the condition of the ball are illegal. These are usually taken to include rubbing the ball on the ground, scuffing with a fingernail or other sharp object, or tampering with the seam of the ball. It's not been proven that the Pakistani team tampered with the ball in any way but as the Umpire allowed England to choose another ball the Pakistani team took offence and threw their dummies out of the pram and threw a wobbler and said 'they didn't want to play no more!'

Answer 2

Actually when the ball is new it swings alot because it is shiny and new. After some time the ball gets roughed up. So the swing is gone. The bowlers then actually try to keep the one side shiny(you know that the cricket ball has two parts?)to get the swing. When the ball gets old enough like 50-60 overs its mechanism changes and it tends to swings more. Its now swings more than the new ball and to make the matter more worse for the batsman it swings late. If bowled correctly the bowler can make the batsmen to play at the wrong line. So the swing with the old ball is called REVERSE SWING. Its very dangerous(obviously for the batsman).

Now, the bowlers only can rub one side of the ball on their clothes to keep it shiny and smooth. They can use a little bit of sweat or saliva also. But if the try to roughen up the already rough side(i mean the other side)by scratching it by hand or by nails, its illegal. They also can't rub it against the ground to make it more rough. The rougher the ball on one side the more it swings. So roughing up the ball by scratching is illegal. This is called ball tampering.

To sum it up:
To roughen up the ball by illegal means.

They did change the ball because they thought that Pakistani players tampered with it. The replaced the ball with the ball which was roughened up naturally.

Answer 3

I can't let Simondo's answer go unchecked. Pietersen hit his sixes AFTER the ball had been changed. Its just one of the myths that seem to have sprung up around this controversy. Another one being that the Pakistanis only delayed coming out by a few minutes. It was more than 20. And thirdly, I don't know if you are aware, but umpires usually check the condition of the ball every 15 minutes or so, so they could have seen a marked deterioration of the ball in just a short period of time, which from experience, would indicate that the ball had been tampered with.

Answer 4

They could do lots of things.

For medium to fast bowlers, their aim is to get the ball to move laterally through the air to give the batsman one extra thing to think about. They legally do this by shining one side of the ball as much as they can whilst leaving the other side rough (untouched). This means that one side of the ball has more drag through the air and the ball has sideways movement.

It becomes illegal when the bowler does something to the rough side to make it rougher. This could include scouring with a bottletop or finger nail, rubbing dirt into it etc etc. Thats the sort of thing the Pakistanis were accused of. The 20 (or so) cameras on them missed this trick though. Obviously pointing at the doddering old fools falling asleep who call themselves members of the ICC.

Answer 5

allegedly they roughed up one half of the ball which changes the way it speed through the air and the way it responds for the bowler.

The ball took a hammering and started reverse swinging around 50 overs old..... the same for england in the first innings. No cameras picked up anything. No conclusive evidence so I cannot see how the PK players are found guilty of anything yet.

The games rulers are at fault here not the players.

Answer 6

It has not been announced what has exactly been done to the ball.

It could have been damaged, spiked so it has a hole in it

It could have been rubbed with something abrasive so it had lots and lots of scratches on it.

The seam may have been picked (i.e. the sewn part around the ball).

All of these will make the ball do different things and doing these deliberately is cheating.

Answer 7

When Mr. Stupid( Hair) knew the England team was losing the match he came up with an accuse to make Pakistan lose it. When he saw the ball was damaged he started making accusation of "ball tampering"

Answer 8

Actually Pakistan did't "tepmer with the ball"(apparently 26 cameras did't pick up tampering)
Tempering with the ball means changing the condition of the ball..by scratching,applying some lotion or chemical(any liquid i think except sweat and may be spit(not sure about spit)),or any other means..
To reverse swing the ball(which incidentlly pakistanis discovered(reverse swinging technique)),bascially in simple terms you shine one side and let the other side lose shine and become rough as you are not shinning or cleaning it..
when one side is shinning and other is rough,according to laws of the physics balls drifts towards the side which offers more resistance for the wind...
This is perfectly legal,sometimes however playes scratch or use other means to make other side (which is not shinning)rough to increase reverse swing..
Pakistanis discovered the art of reverse swing(Sarfraz Nawaz),there was a hell of a controversy and only recently other teams have started to reverse swing the ball to and it has been accepted as an art which has revolutionarised cricket

Imran carried on revers swinging the ball after sarfraz nawar retired..and wasim and waqarm after them and they passed iot on to shoaib akhtar(and now next generation Pakistani bowlers are (under the coaching of waqar younis and companionship of akhtar)..

Basic technique of reverse swing is no secret a long of people now reverse swing the ball,but Pakistani reverse swing(combined with sheer pace and control)is legendry and no one reverse swings the ball the way pakistanis do and no one plays it as well as pakistani do..pakistani technique is one of the most guarded secrets of Pakistan :)


I have posted the link to a web page with profiles of Sarfraz Nawaz the inventer of the "Art of reverse swing"

Answer 9

Picking the seam makes it possible to put much more spin on the ball, making it harder to judge the ball. Rules state that a regulation ball must be used, and picking the seams makes it non regulation.

Arseantlers has us men sussed.

Answer 10

Take a look at www.bbc.co.uk/sport
and look at the cricket section. They go into a lot of detail about what COULD have happened.
At the moment, theres no real evidence to say anything DID happen.