Complaint of ball tampering against New Zealand cricketer, allegation of spoiling the ball with helmet, see VIDEO

New Delhi. A complaint of ball-tampering has been filed against New Zealand cricketer Henry Nicholls. He has been accused of ball tampering during a match of Plunket Shield, New Zealand’s domestic cricket championship. Nicholls was representing the Canterbury team in this match against Auckland. According to the information, 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 runs in both the innings respectively. Canterbury won the match by eight wickets.

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

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Umpires Derek Walker and Kim Cotton later complained against Nicholls for allegedly violating New Zealand Cricket’s code of conduct. Information about the hearing against Nicholls in this matter is not available at present.

Here is the Henry Nicholls rubbing the ball on the helmet incident. pic.twitter.com/jwaliBIFYA

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Despite George Walker’s 60 runs in the match, Auckland’s team was out on the score of 217 runs. Canterbury’s Michael Ray took three wickets for 27 runs. In response, Canterbury made a huge score of 413 runs for 9 wickets. Apart from Nicholls’ century, Michael Rippon scored 69 runs and Zechary Folks scored 61 runs. In reply, in the second innings, the score of the Auckland team was at one time 127 runs for one wicket, but due to Rippon’s four wickets, the team collapsed for 256 runs. Canterbury easily achieved the target of 61.

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Let us tell you, Nicholls has represented the New Zealand team in 64 Tests, 72 ODIs and 10 T20Is. He has 2948 runs in Test at an average of 38.79, 1960 runs in ODI at an average of 35.64 and 100 runs in T20 at an average of 12.5.

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