This is Boom Boom Afridi, one of India's best cricket players. Being an American, I am totally unfamiliar with this sport, but I do know that it is not as gentlemanly as it thinks itself. It is very physical and very ... cut-throat. Even better that it is in this environment that one of our words is used - skullduggery!
I had just dropped the boys off at the junior high school and, as is my habit, tuned into National Public Radio. A segment was beginning on the game and the controversy surrounding Boom Boom tampering with the ball. And it was all caught on tape! Here is the usage:
In cricket, ball tampering is seen as one of the lowest forms of skullduggery. There've been similar scandals before when players were caught scouring the ball with dirt or bottom tops or even candy. Thirty-four years have elapsed since the notorious Vaseline Incident, when an Englishman was accused of polishing the ball with Vaseline. Cricket connoisseurs still have not forgotten it.
Beautiful usage!!
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