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Cricket is much murkier than baseball in this regard. Some amount of "ball tampering" is allowed in cricket, whereas, AFAIK none is in baseball. In cricket you
by kosievdmerwe 5y ago
Cricket is much murkier than baseball in this regard. Some amount of "ball tampering" is allowed in cricket, whereas, AFAIK none is in baseball.
In cricket you can polish the ball against clothing and use sweat or saliva (with some caveats against sweetened saliva). Moreover, replacing the ball is a big event in cricket.
But yeah there have been a couple of ball tampering scandals recently in cricket. One involving pants zippers and another involving sugar in pockets IIRC.
- throwaway210222 5y ago> But yeah there have been a couple of ball tampering scandals recently in cricket. The Australian test team decided time-honoured subtleties such as sweetened-saliva-on-linen was not sufficiently effective: they literally brought sand-paper onto the field.
- kosievdmerwe 5y agoYeah that was amazingly egregious. At least you can excuse the presence of sweets and zippers on pants on the field. No way you're going to be able to explain sandpaper in your pockets.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoIn Cricket umpires inspect the balls quite often though, they would never permit a sticky substance on a cricket ball. You're allowed to scuff up one side and polish the other.