Why Afridi Bites the Ball?

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60 responses to “Why Afridi Bites the Ball?”

1. 

   James Killian Spratt

   February 3, 2010

   @Mohammad: Ah, like the “curve ball” in baseball. The tiny amount of extra weight to one side of the ball, added by the spit throws the concentricity off, creating a curved path, like a revolver bullet that is thrown out of balance when it gets shaved on one side if the cylinder and forcing cone of the barrel are not quite properly aligned when it is fired. Or maybe the air resistance is less on the wet side, with a tiny laminar flow smoothing effect? Additional velocity increases the effects. A baseball is covered with horsehide in two interlocked figure-eights with pronounced raised stitching; messing with the stitching can upset the aerodynamic characteristics of the ball.

   @Hend: Well it appears that the game isn’t just about players or the game, it’s about the publics, too, who seem to get a huge kick out of the cut-ups cutting up. That’s probably the whole point. Fun for everyone. Adrenaline’s great stuff, ain’t it now? Will somebody puh-LEEZ piss me off?–I’m so bored…:-)

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   James Killian Spratt

   February 3, 2010

   Well, guys, my understanding of games in general is that they consist of a challenge, rules, kit and participants, and if any of those four elements aren’t “right,” the game is off. The challenge has to be achievable by some, the rules have to make the challenge difficult, the gear has to be efficient, and players have to follow the rules. If the game gets compromised by the players not following the rules, the game becomes just a stage for attention-seeking clowns to show off their individualism, which doesn’t really belong in team sports.

   If it’s a cricket league, one might expect all the players on all the teams to accept the same rules of cricket, which would be the standard by which their competence is gauged. Either a team is going to play it by the rules or not. If not, they should go find another sport that suits them better.

   Understood that all physically demanding sports are played by persons (mostly young, testosterone-loaded men) whose ultimate motivations have little to do with obeying rules of games for the games’ sakes, but instead are seeking money, girls, and dominance. Not to mention the greedy geezers who own the teams, and all their supporters. 🙂

   Life is a long game of hardball.

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3. 

   Hina Safdar

   February 3, 2010

   Any way Yusha I haven’t seen any of your comments on ‘some’ of my constructive posts so far ……

   You are flogging a dead horse. the truth of the matter is that it is a blunder by Afridi, he was caught red handed and accept it with an apology. My point of writing this post is to inquire from readers like you why he did that?

   He himself said that he wants to support his players than y like this? probably the tour is too long or the players were frustrated bcoz of white wash or may be something else…….but you like always keeps on beating about the bush.

   Any way to sum it up………..I would like to reemphasize that this incident is a disappointment for sure and the discrimination in Australian tours is totally another chapter.

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4. 

   Hina Safdar

   February 3, 2010

   Well quite a lot for me to reply……..:)

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5. 

   Hend

   February 3, 2010

   Ummm…now let me see where was this wrestling match played between Pakistani umpire Shakoor Rana and English cricketer Mike Gatting.

   Who said “Pakistan is the place to send mother in law to”…ummm

   Pakistani umpires were a joke…cruel one ofcourse.

   I fully share your nostalgia for the good old days before you guys took it a notch further up by beginning to damaging the ball…and strangling your own coaches.

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6. 

   Shakir Lakhani

   February 2, 2010

   Hend: it was a long time ago, about 50 years back, that Indian umpires were very unpopular for favouring Indian teams. This was the time when India were able to win test series only in India (owing to the partiality of their umpires). Pakistani cricketers would be given out lbw frequently and it was almost impossible for foreign teams to win in India. So Pakistan campaigned vigorously for neutral umpires and succeeded. I remember the worst cricket commentator in the world (Vizzy, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram) saying, “Nari Contractor was so sure that the umpire would give him out that he started walking away from the wicket, but rushed back when he saw that the umpire had not given him out”. There was no TV in those days, I used to hear cricket commentary on the radio.

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7. 

   Hend

   February 2, 2010

   Looks like you have run out of arguments and proofs.

   To say that ICC revoked Sacin’s ban because he is a star is in line with the other childish allegations you are making.

   You came up with two allegations are both turned out to be dud! sorry!

   Waqar, Akram – ball tampering was made famous by them (though invented by Surfraz). By the way how many matches they won in Australia where every move is captured by camera? 0 (zero). Talking of calibre, just check out India’s performance in Australia…and now stop biting your ball.

   The problem with Pakistan crciket is you don’t know how to take sports. Cheating is ok within pakistan but in the outside world, people don’t consider it normal. If someone is caught cheating, we punish them, that is part of sporting culture everywhere, except ofcourse your country.

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8. 

   Mohammad Yusha

   February 2, 2010

   @Hend: LOL. THANKS FOR PROVING MY POINTS. Sachin was caught rubbing his nails in the ball. His ban was revoked because he is a star. What if a Pakistani player was caught doing the same thing? Would his ban be revoked? Also, just because Dravid was given a warning does not mean that what he did was not wrong. What if a Pakistani player did the same thing? You are also correct on the point that my research is poor. Otherwise I would have been able to come up with more incidents of Indians ball tampering. Also, stop being jealous of Wasim and Waqar. No evidence was found against them. Now try and produce bowlers of their calibre.

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9. 

   Hend

   February 2, 2010

   Shakir, I think you got ahead of yourself based on Yusha’s poor research so I wish I can see your face when you read this.

   Sacin’s ban was revoked by ICC when it was found that the ban was wrongly placed.

   David was not banned only reprimanded when the sweet he was eating got onto the ball accidentally.

   Who stumped who now? To be honest I was kind of waiting for you or Yusha to bring up these two examples…as I already know your laziness for proper research 🙂

   Now contrast this with Pakistani cricketers.

   1. Waqar and Akram caught when scratching the balls (cricket) with bottle caps. Truly India does not have bowlers of their ‘calibre’.

   2. Pakistani team fined and Oval test granted to England for not only tampering the ball but also behaving like kids when caught. Not only this but innocent Darrel Hair was punished – this is so unjust.

   3. Asif, Akhtar caught for using steroids and a fake PCB tribunal acquitted them.

   4. Afridi biting into the ball, disgusting not only due to the tampering aspect but also because the ball was rubbed by Nadev into his crotch previously.

   5. Ball tampering was invented by Surfraaz and passed onto other cheats like Imran and the legacy continues.

   6. Who can forget the Shakur Rana incident? Examples of Pakistan playing with 13 players are well known.

   7. In 1977 tour of India, Waseem Raja (nice guy) came onto Indian dressing room and warned Gavaskar (notout batsman) and others of the plan to give them out LBW by Pakistani team and umpires.

   8. About 40% credit for performance of all Pakistani bowlers should be given to ball tampering and cheating. Whether you believe or not does not matter…whole cricketing world is of this opinion.

   The disappointing thing is Pakistani public chooses to side with such cheating tactics and support it by giving silly reasons (Yusha persists in this in another post) rather than booting out these people. Please remember this is not a jehad…just sports. Learn to play.

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10. 

    Shakir Lakhani

    February 2, 2010

    Hend: stumped by Yusha! I wish I could’ve seen your face when you read that Indian cricketers too indulge in cheating.

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