Having read up on #cricketgate and why it's so bad that the dude rubbed some tape on his balls, I have a scientific question:
Is there any evidence that this 'tampering' does anything?
As anyone with a science background knows, "everyone knows" is the worst kind of anecdote and basically useless as evidence
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And as far as I can tell, all the evidence for this kind of ball tampering is "everyone knows" arguments
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My thought is: the action of a ball hitting a bat at 150kmph+ is likely to cause far, far more difference in how the ball flies over time than scratching with tape
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And other methods of 'cheating', like roughing up the ball with your fingernails etc, seem to also be pretty lacklustre when compared to the action of a massive wooden bat
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The point being that if this form of cheating does not, in fact, confer an advantage, then these twats got caught buggering around for no reason at all
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Imagine risking your incredibly lucrative professional career for nothing more than the vague promise of maybe doing slightly better
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