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Imran says both 'yes’ & 'no'
LAHORE May 9 Former Pakistan (ticket captain Imran Khan admitting ball tarn , pering. said on
Sundar raiching the bail or lifting the seam was not cheating, reports Reuter
He was commenting on a British Sunday newspaper re port that quoted him admit ting to ball-tampering
Imran, one of the world s greatest all-rounders, made the admission in an authorised biography to be published later this month
It adds a fresh dimension to the 'on trover sial Issue of doctoring the ball to achieve ex ceptional swing that erupted when Pakistan last toured Eng land in 1992
The Mail on Sunday quotes one passage of the biography tn which Imran says: "I occasionally scratched the side of the ball and lifted the seam
Lifting the seam or altering the condition of the ball are banned under the laws of cricket relating to unfair play
“These things were not considered cheating during my playing career." Imran told Reuters tn his home town of Lahore on Sunday
"I do not know of any fast bowler who has not lifted the seam sometime or the other during his career," he said.
In fact often great bowlers were seen on television walk ing back to their bowling marks and lifting the seam without causing any comment from umpires, players or Journalists."
He said it was only after the 1992 Pakistan tour to England
that ball tampering became an issue
"Scratching the bail or lift mg the seam has gone on ever since cricket has been played and within limits this was accepted as part of the game '
Imran said: "I was surprised at the naivety of -journalists who seem to have discovered this new form of cheating only two years back.
They should ask some excricketers and they will be surprised to discover the types of tampering that have gone on. specially In county cricket in England such as applying substances like vaseline to the
ball and particularly lifting the seam."
Imran Is also said to reveal in his biography that he used a bottle top to tr\ and tamper with the ball and make it swing more.
When Sussex were playing Hampshire In 1981 the ball was not deviating at all
the 12th man to bring on a bottle top and it started to move around quite a let." Imran is quoted as saying in the
"But that was narrated as an amusing incident and I have done such thing only once in my cricketing career." Imran said on Sunday. "It can be called cheating but the way I saw it at the time it was simply a silly irfcident."
Imran, who announced his retirement from the game towards the end of 1992. Is the fifth highest wicket taker in Test history with 362 wickets in addition to scoring 3.807 runs in his 88 tests.
Imran was quoted in a Bri tlsh newspaper last November as saving he doubted his country would play series against England again this century because of the depth of bad feel ing engendered by ball tam pering allegations
The Pakistani pacemen were accused of doctoring the ball on their tour of England two years ago
The bitterness was high lighted again last November by a libel case in which ex-Pak istan pace bowler Sarfraz Nawaz sued former England batsman Allan Lamb.
The Pakistani had sought damages over allegations in a newspaper article by Lamb that Sarfraz had once detailed the techniques of ball-tampering. It was suggested he had passed on his skills to the present generation of fast bowlers
Sarfraz, once a teammate of Lamb in English county cricket with Northamptonshire, withdrew his libel action on the fourth day of the proceedings.