Sunday, August 20, 2006

Is it time to legalise ball-tampering, also?

When things like match-fixing and pitch-doctoring have been legalised, why not give the official sanction to ball-tampering too? What's the worst that can happen? Ah yes, it'll no longer be a batsman's game. And when it's no longer a batsman's game, the crowds won't get their quota of sixes and fours. Sides will be dismissed for lower scores. Matches will no longer be run-fests. Sponsors will start complaining. And the money will go out of cricket. Now we get it. It's okay to doctor certain things in cricket for commercial reasons, but other things will not be allowed. For commercial reasons. Sorry bowlers. The game will continued to be loaded against you, unless you find a way to make the administrators more money.