{"id":37874,"date":"2018-07-31T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37874"},"modified":"2018-07-31T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:28:00","slug":"ball-tampering-a-cry-for-help-in-unbalanced-sport-steyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ball-tampering-a-cry-for-help-in-unbalanced-sport-steyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball-tampering a \u2018cry for help\u2019 in unbalanced sport: Steyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai<br \/>\nSouth African paceman Dale Steyn believes this year\u2019s Australian ball-tampering scandal could be viewed as a \u201ccry for help\u201d because the balance between bat and ball in cricket has become so skewed in favour of the batsmen. Steyn did not condone the actions of the Cape Town trio but said the incident exposed the need for cricket to change to prevent the loss of the art of reverse swing bowling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s obviously not on, but if you think about it, it\u2019s almost like a cry for help. We need to do something,\u201d Steyn said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much in favour of batsmen these days. Fields are small, two new balls, powerplays, bats have got bigger than they used to be, the list can go on. You bowl a no-ball and it\u2019s a free hit. But I have never seen a rule change that favours the bowler.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai South African paceman Dale Steyn believes this year\u2019s Australian ball-tampering scandal could be viewed as a \u201ccry for help\u201d because the balance between bat and ball in cricket has become so skewed in favour of the batsmen. Steyn did not condone the actions of the Cape Town trio but said the incident exposed the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37876,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37874\/revisions\/37876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}