So what's the big deal?

[Iconoclast]

Re: So what’s the big deal?

@sharaabee

Icon… I realize that ball tampering is not as big a cricket crime as match fixing but IMO it is still disgusting and should be stopped… specially when it goes to the level of eating the ball repeatedly infront of thousands of spectators. Since it is a smaller crime it may not warrant BAN FOR LIFE the first time it is committed. But IMO repeated instances of ball tampering should result in very severe bans. How many instances and how much severity is debatable ofcourse and to be decided by the ICC.

Just cuz Atherton did it.. does not make it right. I honestly believe that making Afridi the captain months after he publicly shamed Pak cricket was a backward step.

A pathetic way of tempering the ball is worse than more traditional ways of doing it! What a pathetic argument, shows your saffron colour. BTW, just to remind you that Tendulkar was found guilty of ball tampering as well.