Rubbing it the wrong way - the most famous ball tampering incidents in cricket

Shahid Afridi in 2010 – Biting into it!

Shahid Afridi – Wants a bite of everything!

This was perhaps the craziest of the lot and who else but Shahid Afridi was in the centre of it all. In 2010, Shahid Afridi was charged with ball tampering after he was caught biting the ball after the ball was changed by the umpires.

Afridi, who was leading Pakistan in the absence of Mohammad Yousuf, later admitted to the offence and said that “I shouldn’t have done it. It just happened.”

However, not only did he plead guilty for his wrongdoing, but also admitted that ball tampering was a common practice among all teams.