All teams tamper with ball: Imran, Rameez

Karachi: Shahid Afridi is not the only one who thinks that all teams tamper with the ball.

Pakistan`s World Cup winning former captain Imran Khan and another ex-skipper Rameez Raja feel the same. Afridi, who has been banned for two Twenty20 matches for tampering with the ball in a one-dayer against Australia in Perth, has claimed that all teams try such tactics to exploit the conditions to their advantage. Backing Afridi`s claim, Imran said only the sub-continental teams are punished for the offence. "It is nothing new, when we were playing and developed reverse swing we were accused of being cheats and tampering with the ball, but when the English and other bowlers did it became an art," he said.However, both Imran and Rameez didn`t condone Afridi`s behaviour in gnawing into the ball. Imran insisted he never tampered with the ball in his playing days as other teams did."There have been several recorded incidents of teams trying to change condition of the ball through various methods," he claimed. PTI