Controversially Yours: 'Almost all Pak pacers tampered with ball' - Shoaib Akhtar

[Galaxy]

'Almost all Pak pacers tampered with ball' - Shoaib Akhtar


New Delhi: Controversial Pakistani speedster Shoaib Akhtar has created a flutter by openly admitting that he, along with all his contemporaries in the team, have regularly indulged in ball-tampering.

Pakistan fast bowlers over generations have always been under scanner for ball-tampering whenever they have got the ball to swing more than usual but Akhtar is the first to admit that he indulged in the malpractice, which is banned in international cricket.

"Almost all Pakistani fast bowlers have tampered with the ball. I may be the first one to openly admit to it but everybody is doing it," the maverick fast bowler has revealed in his just-published autobiography "Controversially Yours."

"To be honest, every team in the world tampers with the ball. We probably started it but today koi team doodh ki dhooli nahin hain. No team is innocent and virtually every fast bowler does it. That is the only way to survive because the wickets are so slow.

Akhtar, who was twice suspended by International Cricket Council (ICC) for ball tampering during his career, defends the speed merchants for indulging in this illegal cricketing activity.

"After years of not allowing bouncers, in 2001, the ICC ruled that only one would be allowed per over. The pitches are dead and slow and made to order for batting. It's the bowlers who are curtailed. It's like giving match practice to people.

We are hit all over the ground," he lamented in his book.

In his tell-all book, Akhtar cited examples of how he had indulged in doctoring the ball during his playing career. It was in a three-nation tournament in Sri Lanka after 2003 World Cup, the bowler recalled an incident in Dambulla while playing against New Zealand.

'Almost all Pak pacers tampered with ball': Cricketnext

 

[Daredevil]

Illegal and Pakistan has become synonymous these days. What's new?. It might come to a day when word "illegal" might be replaced with "Pakistan". One day a police might say - Hey, you will be booked for your Pakistani activities

 

[nrj]

^^^ LOL!

I remember when school kids replaced potty with pakistan & Mushraff.

 

[SpArK]

Below my dignity to react to Shoaib's comment: Sachin

 

[Dovah]

^^Sachin has more talent in a fingernail than Akhtar has in his whole body.

 

[Yusuf]

Well tellbus something that we don't know about Shoaib

 

[A.V.]

DD there takes the cake , booked for pakistani activities LOL , but sachin did best why bother about a has been paper star , i bet malinga has done more than what sohaib has achieved for his country, he should be a bigger star then shoaib claims to be

 

[Blackwater]

^^Sachin has more talent in a fingernail than Akhtar has in his whole body.

even Sachin's son Arjun has more talent than this paki. This paki has forgotten his aukat..

Interesting fact is, to sell his book he is in India, He knows paki will not buy his books as they are illiterate .They buy books on Taliban or how to make bombs or how to assemble Ak-47 as they understand that better

 

[Dr.War]

Yeah this great player cant even make a century in the recent series in England and we know how he plays and what record he has in overseas conditions. I accept he has a great record in sub-continent but other places Nah.
Sachin is a legend but not a match winner. thats true. He is a great guy No doubt..

 

[Dr.War]

even Sachin's son Arjun has more talent than this paki. This paki has forgotten his aukat..

Interesting fact is, to sell his book he is in India, He knows paki will not buy his books as they are illiterate .They buy books on Taliban or how to make bombs or how to assemble Ak-47 as they understand that better

yeah Shoaib knows only fools can buy it and that is why he choses India.

 

[Daredevil]

What can we expect from a Pakistani - a smart ass comment without knowing the figures. Please try to prove your comments or rather disprove the statistics below of the Sachin Tendulakar's batting in Tests.

Grouping Span Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 0

v Australia 1996-2010 15 29 3 1629 214 62.65 5 8 1
v England 1993-2008 11 17 3 848 165 60.57 3 4 0
v New Zealand 1995-2010 11 18 4 690 217 49.28 2 3 0
v Pakistan 1999-2007 8 14 1 574 136 44.15 1 5 2
v South Africa 1996-2010 10 17 1 580 106 36.25 2 2 1
v Sri Lanka 1990-2009 13 17 1 840 148 52.50 4 2 0
v West Indies 1994-2002 6 11 1 708 179 70.80 2 2 0
v Zimbabwe 1993-2002 5 7 1 678 201* 113.00 3 1 0

in India 1990-2010 79 130 15 6547 217 56.93 22 27 4


in Australia 1991-2008 16 30 4 1522 241* 58.53 2549 59.70 6 5 3 171 6
in Bangladesh 2000-2010 7 9 3 820 248* 136.66 1294 63.36 5 0 0 87 4
in England 1990-2011 17 30 1 1575 193 54.31 2917 53.99 4 8 0 227 5
in New Zealand 1990-2009 11 18 1 842 160 49.52 1469 57.31 2 5 1 113 6
in Pakistan 1989-2006 10 13 1 483 194* 40.25 964 50.10 1 2 0 58 0
in South Africa 1992-2011 15 28 3 1161 169 46.44 2348 49.44 5 3 2 172 5
in Sri Lanka 1993-2010 12 19 2 1155 203 67.94 2070 55.79 5 4 0 137 4
in West Indies 1997-2002 10 14 1 620 117 47.69 1313 47.22 1 5 3 82 1
in Zimbabwe 1992-2001 4 7 1 240 74 40.00 443 54.17 0 2 1 30 1

in Africa 1992-2011 19 35 4 1401 169 45.19 2791 50.19 5 5 3 202 6
in Americas 1997-2002 10 14 1 620 117 47.69 1313 47.22 1 5 3 82 1
in Asia 1989-2010 29 41 6 2458 248* 70.22 4328 56.79 11 6 0 282 8
in Europe 1990-2011 17 30 1 1575 193 54.31 2917 53.99 4 8 0 227 5
in Oceania 1990-2009 27 48 5 2364 241* 54.97 4018 58.83 8 10 4 284 12

away 1989-2011 102 168 17 8418 248* 55.74 15367 54.77 29 34 10 1077 32

Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[The Messiah]

What can we expect from a Pakistani - a smart ass comment without knowing the figures. Please try to prove your comments or rather disprove the statistics below of the Sachin Tendulakar's batting in Tests.

What else can you expect ? they cant even see there team play international cricket in there own country

 

[Dr.War]

What can we expect from a Pakistani - a smart ass comment without knowing the figures. Please try to prove your comments or rather disprove the statistics below of the Sachin Tendulakar's batting in Tests.

Shoaib said he was not a match winner in his earlier carrier, but then he improved to make win matches for india when india got dravid, yuvraj, sehwag and sourav in their ranks, before then he was not.

Second thing he said that sachin is afraid of his bouncers when he was not in good form, the stats above shows that sachin has an average of about 40 against pakistan as compared to his overall average of 55 which shows he is uncomfortable with pakistani pacers. I still said sachin is a legend but above is true.

 

[Dr.War]

What else can you expect ? they cant even see there team play international cricket in there own country

Yeah that is true, but i can expect gibberish from you.

 

[The Messiah]

Yeah that is true, but i can expect gibberish from you.

Yes you can because you only deserve rubbish.

 

[Dr.War]

Browsing this forum since this month, i found members of this forum is very intolerant.

 

[maomao]

Browsing this forum since this month, i found members of this forum is very intolerant.

The world 'Tolerance' from a paki Bigot does not come out natural.....We all know how tolerant pakis like you are in your failed state, no doubt you have to wear the mask of peace and tolerance when you have to interact with outsiders (especially non-muslims), to hide your ugly violent/vile face (i.e. jihadi nature) and of-course to get hand-outs, support money and alms from the Kufars of the world (learn to work, studies show you people are becoming more of scripture reading freeloaders and a bane on the societies of the world, especially the paki immigrants of in the west, they wanna sit at home and take non-muslim tax payers money as hand-outs, shame)....we very well know what you people have been taught in your madrasas and schools, the indoctrination by your 'deep state', the mode of living in denial and fake islamic fantasies et al .....trust me you bigots can be anything but peaceful and tolerant, try and stay at your-side of the boarder you nut-job!

 

[nrj]

Sachin feared only my bowling, Vinod Kambli tells Shoaib Akhtar

"Sachin was never scared of Shoaib or anyone. The way he plays his cricket and has scored the highest runs (in Tests and ODIs)......No one is close to him and no one can speak about him like that,"

In a lighter vein, the left-hander, who shared a world-record 664-run partnership with Tendulkar in school-level cricket in 1980s, said, "He feared only my bowling."

 

[mayfair]

Browsing this forum since this month, i found members of this forum is very intolerant.

Lack of brains can be very hard to tolerate, especially on forum geared towards intelligent discussion.

Reckon, you thought this would be like the def and dumb forum.

 

[SpArK]

He may be the one who is tampering with the balls. No surprise that he has genital warts.

Genital warts rule Shoaib Akhtar out of Twenty20 World Cup - mirror.co.uk