Every scratch that Faf Du Plessis made using the ball and his zip created waves around the world. Waves, including those consisting of criticism from rational cricket followers, waves of diversions from Pakistan from their defeat , and probably the waves in advertisements too, for example, an almost bankrupt lottery turned profitable by using a tag line that goes, "Scratch and still win".
A newspaper claimed that there was no difference between what Afridi did and what Faf Du Plessis was about to do. They claim that Faf likes his fruits to be peeled first while Afridi, apparently, does not. The next day a jam and jelly company advertised, "We peel the handpicked fruits with our zips!".
However, a close friend of Faf Du Plessis has revealed that Du Plessis hates zips for one 'painful' incident he had back in school while rushing out of toilet. He explained that he cannot control his ziposcratch-syndrome, he feels zips will always bite him and hence he did what he did. " Why would any sane man scratch a ball with his zip? ...I mean why does he have to scratch the cricket ball with his trousers' zip?", the friend consolidated.
On the other hand, ICC's committee suggested various spots on the kit to place the zip where a player's hand would never reach, hence, preventing any such acts of ball tempering. Later, however, a genius suggested the complete removal of it. " Such a brilliant idea this! We understand that such a humongous task is now being asked of cricket boards, and therefore we grant them a period till 2015. During this period, we expect them to improve their domestic infrastructure, help neighboring associates to enhance cricket facilities, prepare for World Cup 2015, bring a democratic system in place, hold elections and then hold them again after the completion of the term and ,of course, remove zips from their international kits."
Speaking of the scratches, Sachin Tendulkar will make the final scratch on the pitch on his 200th test against the West Indies. While many believed that the world will come to stand still once this moment of falsehood occurs, people seem to be living on with their lives.
"O!M!G! Tendulkar retiring? I cannot even hear you. I will die starving if this is true!", a diehard fan shared his few years old thoughts while eating large fries.
"The greatest batsman of the richest board is bidding farewell to cricket, and all we are going to do is to watch the match?!", said an excited Tendulkar fan who cannot wait to see the highlights of 200th test match after he would skip it live for fishing.
[Sorry for the abrupt end...Our editor refused to give any further space for Tendulkar's final match.]