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May 21, 2003

Caught in the act

Mohandas Menon looks at the instances of ball-tampering over the years.

July 1992
Pakistani bowlers Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Aaqib Javed were accused of ball-tampering during the team's tour of England. However, no action was taken against these players.

"I believe in fair play, and action must be taken against those cricketers who use foul tactics, whether it is Waqar or any other bowler around the world. I am not against Waqar or Wasim Akram but I know much more about ball-tampering. For Pakistan's sake, I don't want to add much," Current Pakistan captain Rashid Latif had said when he was out of the team a couple of years back.

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