Ball tampering is an issue which started in 1990, later it was called illegal by the ICC. The tampered ball can swing easily as compare to the new health ball but still it requires the skills. Alan Donald the South African legend told an interview that the ICC should allow the ball to be tampered becasue the dead wickets on which today’s cricket is going on will keep balance between batsman and bowler.
The ICC would shoot me for saying it but, with the wickets that we play on and the dying breed fast bowlers are becoming on these flatter wickets, I would say we do need some sort of defence mechanism, something to fall back on to say ‘Right, we can do this. We can now prepare this ball to go’,” Donald told ‘Cricinfo’.
However, the 42-year-old, currently the coach of Warwickshire where he had served with distinction as a player, is aware his plea would have very little effect.
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