No, you weren't sniffing it, you were biting that ball, yes BITING it!

Idiot.

Oh, cricket

One of the things I dislike about cricket (and there are a few) is how ridiculously esoteric the cheating is. 🙂

Disgusting – why can't he just pick at it, stand on it or rub some concealed dirt into it like a sporting English chap would?

Why oh why can't these foreigners follow the example of our honourable and decent English team Captains?

For my general education, can one tell anything useful about a cricket ball by sniffing it during play? Or is that just an incredibly stupid made-up excuse that fools no-one? 🙂

For my general education, can one tell anything useful about a cricket ball by sniffing it during play?

What he should have said was that he wasn't sniffing the ball for the sake of it, but that he was trying to inhale the aroma of his team mates who had been shining the ball by rubbing it in their groins.

Double post nonsense.

edited due to lack of taste……..