World Test Championship Final: Australian team accused of ball tampering

Amid dominating show by Australia in the ongoing World Test Championship (WTC) Final at the Oval, a former Pakistan cricketer has brought ball tampering allegation against them.

As per former Pakistan batsman Basit Ali, Aussies ‘made the ball' near the 15th over and used it to their benefit by dismissing two of India’s top batters --Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara. Both Pujara and Kohli were dismissed in quick succession by Cameron Green and Mitchell Starc respectively.

Ali claims that he is shocked to see no one taking notice of Australia’s tactics including officials, commentators and the Indian batters themselves.

“Australia clearly played with the ball and no one is talking about it. No batter is wondering about what is happening? The biggest example is batters getting bowled while leaving the ball. Let me give you the evidence too. Until the 54th over when Shami was bowling, the shine was on the outside and the ball moved back into Steve Smith. This is not called reverse-swing. Reverse swing is when the shine is on the inside and the ball comes back in,” Ali said on his YouTube channel.

“Look at the 16th, 17th and 18th over, the ball on which Virat Kohli got out... look at the shine. Starc had the ball in his hand with the shiny end pointing outside but the ball was moving the other way. Jadeja was hitting the ball on the on-side and the ball was flying over point. Have the umpires gone blind? God knows who all are sitting there who can’t see such a simple thing,” Ali further said.