November 2002
In the only such incident in domestic cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board fined six cricketers Rs 3,000 each, after they were found guilty of ball-tampering during the 2002-03 Ramadan Cup one-day cricket tournament. The players are: Naved Latif, Qaiser Abbas, Yasir Arafat, Sajid Shah, Zahid Saeed and Rao Iftikhar Anjum.
"I occasionally scratched the side of the ball and lifted the seam. Only once did I use an object. When Sussex were playing Hampshire in 1981 the ball was not deviating at all. I got the 12th man to bring out a bottle top and it started to move around a lot," Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan had confessed, after his playing days were over, while reflecting on the malpractice.
With the latest Shoaib Akhtar incident, it seems some bowlers have made it a practice to resort to unfair means.
