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Why does Pakistan traditionally produce better fast bowlers than India?
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Migara
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Kapil, Prabhakar co was found tampering the ball in 1993/4 SL series. Sadly no one was pulled up.
marc71178
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Imran scored actual runs, and at a far better average (when coming in earlier in the order). Literally the only thing Kapil has over Imran is strike rate which in a 5 day Test is the most irrelevant measure of comparison.
You cannot just ignore the matches where Imran batted but didn't bowl because they are an indication of his batting ability (and it's surely another indication of Imran's superiority that they wanted him to play even though he couldn't bowl?)
flibbertyjibber
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So Kapil's achievements as a batsman are all hollow then as he is a cheat. You can't allow that to be ignored.
Migara
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I am trying to figure out how it applies to Imran, but not to Kapil!
Starfighter
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I saw an article recently in some Indian newspaper where John Holder claimed that while umpiring in the '89 Pakistan/India series he saw both teams, and Imran, Wasim, Kapil and Prabhakar in particular, quite openly scratching scratching the ball. Also England at the Oval in '91, the season after which he was dropped from the international panel.
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flibbertyjibber
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It applies to Smith but not Tendulkar too.
He chats wham and is a bit of a doombrain really.
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morgieb
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*Forfty.
Starfighter
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You're posting a link to Quora as evidence? One word: no.
what common sense is it man ? Do you have it even ??? Quora is only quoting lines from his autobiography as such.So have the least basic sense of giving preference to Sachin's own statements with in quora rather than quora itself.As a matter of basic sense, if you give a google search w.r.t 'Playing it My Way' & 'tampering' you can get info: not only in quora but in other sites too.
same as said to '*****'
Starfighter
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More pointedly, the ICC didn't 'clear' Tendulkar, They just folded under the pressure of the race-baiting BCCI and dropped the charges because politics and 'accepted' his lame excuse.
cnerd123
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I mean there are literally pictures of Sachin tampering with the ball and no concrete evidence of Imran doing it. Yet for some reason Imran's entire bowling career is to be discredited while we simultaneously are to just take Sachins word that he had no idea what he was doing was illegal, ignoring the reason he didn't get charged for it was because the BCCI threatened to boycott the whole tour.
And how this relates to Imran Khan's batting is beyond me. Such junk posting. Keep this stuff to ICF and PC please.
And how this relates to Imran Khan's batting is beyond me. Such junk posting. Keep this stuff to ICF and PC please.
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Sachin wasn't even charged with ball tampering by the referee iirc. He was just charged for not informing the umpire he was cleaning the ball.