![]() Loosely started a FAQ, Did you know…, and Letters from You sections. Wrote walkthrough for Tower of Dal Gurak and started on the Abyss. 95 (8-6-03) - Finished walkthrough for Temple of Ianna and added to the Fortress of Nemrut walkthrough. Proofread the guide and changed a thing or two there. (These will never be finished as I'll probably always be adding to them.) - COMPLETED THE WALKTHROUGH. Time to get on with the rest of my life… *Dizzy, blind, and flabby, gets up from his own pool of sweat from the chair and leaves the room for the first time in months.* Version Info - Version 1.0 - Current Version (12-6-03) - Completed the Letters from You, FAQ, and Did you Know… sections. Sorry for the huge delay, but I'm a high school senior with lots of thing to do. But I get people emailing me everyday thanking me. *Wipes sweat off forehead.* I kind of wish I never wasted my time on this thing in the first place. Overhead swing thief swing update#There might be a minor update or two later on, but for now consider this thing done. I actually have a thing or two to fix here and there, and the weapons section is not quite complete (dwarf crap), but these are minor things that I can't really fix now anyway. The Abyss (extra) Note: Levels with a rune have an * beside them. You Know You've Been Playing BoD Too Much When… III. At the moment, however, Steve Smith and his leadership group, have reduced it to ugly, clumsy tampering.By: Anton Kibalnik Copyright 2003 by Kvaked. If the ball doesn’t reverse, it can always swing the conventional way.” Reverse-swing is a phenomenon riding on the tricky art of ‘preparing the ball’. Zaheer Khan introduced the length-ball form of it. ![]() “Wasim Akram’s reverse-swing was more potent because he bowled all kinds of deliveries with the old ball. ![]() Holding the ball in the sweaty palms makes the ball equally heavy on the rougher side.” The member of the Indian staff gives away the ‘preparing’ tactics in times of ‘desperation’ - of bowling bouncers and cross-seam deliveries. “The ones who use their fingers to hold and polish the ball, are the ones preparing the ball. The umpire offers from his experience of observing the players. Skill and overhead conditions are equally important.” The fallacy here is the priority to roughen up one side of the ball. Yet, the Australians failed to get it to go the other way. “Even if you forcibly prepare the ball like how the Australians tried to do, there are too many other factors to rely on. Even if the conditions become conducive to reverse-swing, it will take at least around 50 overs to happen. “You can’t just depend on reverse-swing outside the sub-continent. According to a member of the senior Indian team management, the absolute need to get the ball to reverse is notional. You don’t get squares like Kotla all around the world. For example, at the Ferozeshah Kotla, even a Ranji team will get the SG Test ball to reverse within 10 overs,” Nehra explained the prerequisites of the phenomenon. ![]() “If conditions are dry and pitch is abrasive, the ball will in any case reverse. Ground conditions, pitch and atmosphere are bigger determinants than just the bowler’s technique. Reverse-swing can’t happen in desperation. Smith spilled it when he dropped the word ‘desperation’ in his confession-cum-apology. Yet, there has to be more than one reason to do so. That’s when the ball needs to be checked by the umpire to see if it feels sticky.” The obvious ways to cheat, as ball-tampering is perceived to be, are there in the open. The sunscreen creams that the players apply on their faces and arms too can be used unfairly. “We need to keep a check on the frequency of one-bounce throws along with keeping a watch on whether the ball is repeatedly given one or two particular players to polish the ball. “There are a few ways of preparing ball which don’t breach the laws of the game,” a senior international umpire told TOI, while listing the grey areas. ALSO READ: It will be sad if Smith and Warner don't play IPL: Nehra Match officials, besides being posted on the 22-yard pitch, are trained to keep an eye on the entire field to sense any misdemeanor. But the moot point is if it is, then ball-tampering might be too. Like in world cricket, reverse swing is common in Indian domestic cricket too. It gives me control and movement,” Gurbani had claimed after claiming his hat-trick that Indore evening. “I feel comfortable bowling with the old ball. ![]() Indian domestic bowlers, like Gurbani, have conceded that the new ball is no longer a lure these days. ![]()
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