King_Ponting said:
Yes you can!
When Imran Khan sued Botham, he promptly displayed video evidence of Botham tampering with the ball and successfully WON his case- Botham was never accused of ball tampering.
Fact is, everyone has tampered with the ball at some stage or another- well, almost everyone atleast and the ones caught in the tv in front of a big audience ( Atherton, Dravid, Waqar, etc.)were just plain unlucky ( compared to the other tamperers).
If you seriously believe that there isnt a SINGLE instance of someone like McGrath scratching the ball or picking the seam or whatever, you have not watched enough cricket.
For eg, i remember seeing McGrath scratching the seam in the one-off test in 96 in IND.
FYI, during the 99-2000 series involving PAK and WI in PAK, they had Dessie Haynes as a guest speaker during an innings break ( or lunch or end of play- something like that, i am not sure) and he was asked by Cozier about the two Ws and ball tampering, with mention of the PAK in ENG series in 1992. Dessie plainly said that the English had no clue about reverse swing and what the comms/players didnt understand, they attached a negetive connotation to it. For in 1990, when WI played PAK, he got leg before to an absolute stunner of a delivery from Wasim and he since could hardly believe that a full ball pitched a foot outside offstump could swing in so sharply and strap him leg before, he picked up the ball and stared at it. He found nothing wrong with the ball.