The beamer bowled by Shoaib Akthar in the last ball of the 126th over during the Indian innings in Faisalabad was definitely against the very spirit of the game.
London: After Ashley Giles' much-criticised negative line, it is the intimidatiory tactics of England fast bowlers against Sachin Tendulkar in the just-concluded first Test that has set the tongues wagging among the purists of the game.
London: After Ashley Giles' much-criticised negative line, it is the intimidatiory tactics of England fast bowlers against Sachin Tendulkar in the just-concluded first Test that has set the tongues wagging among the purists of the game.
The beamer bowled by Shoaib Akthar in the last ball of the 126th over during the Indian innings in Faisalabad was definitely against the very spirit of the game. After being hit all over in that over, he came round the wicket and slipped in a beamer and aimed it straight at the throat of batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni.What followed next is an arrogant, nonchalant walk back by the bowler without even tendering a fake apology to the batsman or the umpire.Had it hit the batsman, the beamer could have proved fatal. Such acts need to be severely condemned and
