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Yes, and you can also rub sweat into the side of the ball that you want to keep shiny. However artificial substances are banned, such as sunscreen, but in practice are very difficult for the umpires or anyone to police. So in effect, the laws mean that some kinds of “ball tampering” are perfectly legal.

While we are briefly talking about cricket, let’s talk about Afghanistan. The Afghanistan team recently won the Cricket World Cup Qualifying tournament in Zimbabwe. The tournament consisted of 10 smaller cricketing nations vying for 2 spots in the 2019 Cricket World Cup in England. There was a lot of controversy…

Australia also act as self-appointed arbiters of what counts as “playing hard but fair” and what is “stepping over the line”. This series against South Africa has already been controversial based on players sledging each other (what you’d call “trash talking”), and as usual the Australians have been vocally serving it…

and got caught in a big conspiracy to doctor the Yankees’ balls

Doctoring the ball is a bootable offense.

Sister Jean’s Delinquent Cousin:

To put this in perspective, Australia have been going on at some length during this test series with South Africa that the Proteas have been engaging in behavior that “crosses the line,” such as bringing up David Warner’s wife’s tryst with a New Zealand rugby player back in 2007 before she was married to Warner, and…

You mean like if Tom Brady got caught doctoring footballs for the biggest game if the season, and the Patriots’ staff knew about it? That level of scandal? When nothing finally happened?

You mean this man?

as you typed this, somewhere in the bronx a man roused from his slumber to whisper, softly: “yeah jeets”

Is it Jeter or the Babe? MAKE UP YOUR MIND, CRICKET MAN.

Thank you for this article. I had a feeling something like this happened, but now I understand what is behind all of the newest posts in the Australian based Simpsons shitposting group I follow on Facebook.

Cricket fan (Windies) here

Twins fan, my favorite moment ever in MLB

That’s a trumpet that’s been run over by a car, right?

All you need to know about cricket is that the first number in the score is the number of crickets killed in the battle and the second is the number of humans. So, like 235/7 might seem like a lopsided victory for the bipeds, but considered by mass the crickets are doing pretty well.

Listen. Cricket is a huge international sport, and this scandal is an enormous deal for millions and millions of sports fans around the globe. But it might as well be written in Klingon or Quenya for all I am able to make sense of it. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take it seriously! Just that I am utterly incapable…