Ball Tampering Complaint Against New Zealand Cricketer, Watch VIDEO

New Delhi. A complaint of ball tampering has been filed against New Zealand cricketer Henry Nicholls. He is accused of ball-tampering during a match in New Zealand’s domestic cricket championship, Plunkett Shield. Nicholls was representing the Canterbury team in this match against Auckland. According to reports, the incident took place at Hagley Oval where the Canterbury team had a match against Auckland. In this match, Nicholls made an important contribution to the team’s victory by scoring 120 and 30 not out in both innings respectively. Canterbury won this match by eight wickets.

In the match, during Auckland’s second innings, Nicholls was accused of ball tampering at the start of the 32nd, 33rd and 35th overs. In the video footage, Nicholls can be seen rubbing the ball on the rim of the helmet before the overs, which falls under the category of violation of the Laws of Cricket.

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Umpires Derek Walker and Kim Cotton later filed a complaint against Nicholls for an alleged breach of the New Zealand Cricket Code of Conduct. Information about the hearing against Nicholls is not currently available.

Here Henry Nichols rubs the ball on the helmet incident. pic.twitter.com/jwaliBIFYA

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Despite George Walker’s 60 runs in the match, the Auckland team was bowled out for 217 runs. Canterbury’s Michael Ray took three wickets for 27 runs. In reply, Canterbury made a huge score of 413 runs for 9 wickets. In addition to Nicholls’ century, Michael Rippon scored 69 runs and Zachary Fox scored 61 runs. In reply, Auckland’s score was 127 for one at one point in the second innings, but four wickets from Ripon saw the team bundle out for 256. Canterbury easily achieved the target of 61 runs.

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Let us tell you that Nicholls has represented the New Zealand team in 64 Tests, 72 ODIs and 10 T20Is. He has scored 2948 runs at an average of 38.79 in Tests, 1960 runs at an average of 35.64 in ODIs and 100 runs at an average of 12.5 in T20s.

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