England Cricket Team Involved In Ball Tampering In Cape Town - Why Are There Different Standards For Pakistan & The Rest Of The World?
By Sikander Hayat
England bowlers have been found to be involved in tampering the ball during the test at Cape Town. ICC have decided not to take any action despite the fact that the television cameras clearly show Stuart Broad & Jimmy Anderson doing ball tampering to make the ball reverse swing. My only question is that if this was Pakistan, the whole world media, the ICC and everyone else would have been crying at the top of their lung capacity to say Pakistanis were cheats but in case of England, there are no voices to be heard from the “esteemed” British media and the rest of the world.
Why are there double standards when it comes to Pakistan? Why England crickets
are not called cheats when clearly they were involved in cheating. When Pakistan had a great bowling attack in the form of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis & Shoaib Akhtar, who could bowl reverse swing at 100 miles per hour, it was called cheating but when England bowlers bowl reverse swing, it becomes art. You decide.
Even Michael Vaughan, the former England cricket captain says that there are double standards. He writes in his column in the daily telegraph “ If this had been a game involving Pakistan, and Shoaib Akhtar or Mohammad Asif had
been pictured using their fingers on the ball, there would have been uproar. As it was, Anderson is a lucky man.”
It only shows that English press are the hypocrites of extreme proportions when it comes to tarnishing the image of one side but leaving other’s intact. All these hypocrites must look into their own deeds before they blame Pakistan again.
England bowlers have been found to be involved in tampering the ball during the test at Cape Town. ICC have decided not to take any action despite the fact that the television cameras clearly show Stuart Broad & Jimmy Anderson doing ball tampering to make the ball reverse swing. My only question is that if this was Pakistan, the whole world media, the ICC and everyone else would have been crying at the top of their lung capacity to say Pakistanis were cheats but in case of England, there are no voices to be heard from the “esteemed” British media and the rest of the world.
Why are there double standards when it comes to Pakistan? Why England crickets
are not called cheats when clearly they were involved in cheating. When Pakistan had a great bowling attack in the form of Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis & Shoaib Akhtar, who could bowl reverse swing at 100 miles per hour, it was called cheating but when England bowlers bowl reverse swing, it becomes art. You decide. Even Michael Vaughan, the former England cricket captain says that there are double standards. He writes in his column in the daily telegraph “ If this had been a game involving Pakistan, and Shoaib Akhtar or Mohammad Asif had
been pictured using their fingers on the ball, there would have been uproar. As it was, Anderson is a lucky man.” It only shows that English press are the hypocrites of extreme proportions when it comes to tarnishing the image of one side but leaving other’s intact. All these hypocrites must look into their own deeds before they blame Pakistan again.
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