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Should ball-tampering be legalised?

January 21, 2004 18:33 IST
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'It is time to legalise ball-tampering in cricket.' So wrote Sir Richard Hadlee in the first paragraph of his weekly column for Auckland's Sunday Star Times almost a decade ago.

'I can already hear the gasps from the game's conservatives, but I am deadly serious.

'As long as the bowlers or fielders use whatever means they have on their persons, I don't see anything wrong with it. I'm talking about the use of a fingernail to scratch the ball, not bottle tops or those sort of things.'

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