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What if your watch has sandpaper on itI'd allow for mints, gum, sugary drinks, wrist bands, caps, shoe laces/spikes, fingernails,and even watches and sun glasses if they want to get really creative.
What if your watch has sandpaper on itI'd allow for mints, gum, sugary drinks, wrist bands, caps, shoe laces/spikes, fingernails,and even watches and sun glasses if they want to get really creative.
If you want to spend an innings fielding with sandpaper on your wrist then by all means go for it.What if your watch has sandpaper on it
Bancroft was not hiding the sandpaper from the umps. He was simply done roughing up the ball and wanted something to shine it up.Add semen to the list. (Gotta cover all of the bases)
But basically is this not how the rules have always been.... it is only because of the cameras that all this other stuff has really become a problem, now that the public can see what goes on on the field. Outrageous!I think under the Laws at the moment, the ball is in control of the umpires - they basically deem if it's fit to use or not.
So all you need to do is to tell players that they can do whatever the **** they want to to the ball except use a foreign object. You then enable the umpires to change the ball if they feel it's been too severely tampered with.
Basically take this issue out of the hand of administrators and leave it in the hands of the Umpires and Match Referee. They will oversee the condition of the ball, and they will #DrawTheLine one what they feel is an acceptable degree of damage. If the officials for one particular game have strict controls on tampering, then so be it, thats the standard that will apply to both sides for the duration of the whole game. If the officials are lenient, then both sides benefit.
Trying to set arbitrary standards from the outside for all players and match officials to follow never works. Umpires can be given guidelines to follow, but hardline stances in a sport as vague as cricket always fail. Just let the players do whatever they want within reason - 'reason' being determined by the match officials in charge of the game.
Ball tampering in baseball is at an Advanced Post-Doctoral level compared to cricket. Substances like pine tar, vaseline, and eyeblack have yet to be used on the cricket field. Often hidden in plain sight.....Also baseball is for pussies
In a real man's sport you gotta let them play with the ball. Apply bodily fluids, rough it up, give it a good rubbing on the trousers. That's how men play.
The difference is that it is essentially good for one or two pitches at the most before they are swapped. There about 70 baseballs used per game.
I think so, but tampering the ball is still illegal under the laws, so you still have to hide it from the umpires (and apparently the Camera Crews too now). If you get caught even using something like vaseline, or picking the seam with your fingernail, there has to be a penalty.But basically is this not how the rules have always been.... it is only because of the cameras that all this other stuff has really become a problem, now that the public can see what goes on on the field. Outrageous!
Would classify as "something no cricketer should reasonably have on them over the course of the game" tbhhave a jizz on the ball so you can get it to hold and grip on the pitch imo