New deception technique?

This is an excerpt from an Andrew Strauss interview at The Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ma...he03.xml&page=3

Berry: Two-nil and a forfeiture was a wonderful result — surely that's a better way of describing it than 3-0. It's just a shame that Pakistan did not have a strike bowler until the last Test when Mohammad Asif came in. What about his extraordinary skill of showing one side of the ball to the batsman in his delivery stride then flicking the seam round with his ring finger before he turns his arm over? I gather he rang up Leicestershire after the Test and said he had dismissed two England batsmen that way.

Strauss: Rana Naved does it as well. I've tried doing it in the dressing-room and it's hard enough when you are standing still.

James: Andy Roberts used to do it.

Atherton: He showed us in Antigua on my last tour there. It's an incredible sleight of hand. I think Asif is a really good bowler - a very smart, thinking bowler.
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What is this flicking thing? Why havent we heard of this stuff before?

Ball-altering is a true art that only the likes of chalaak Pakistani's can invent

It's just like how bowlers hide the ball not to show which way it's going to swing, only this time by using the right finger to switch the ball around, ie. holding the ball for an inswinging delivery, then, while in run up and jump, quickly flicking the ball with the right finger (same bowling hand) to turn the seam for an outswinging delivery when bowled; ultimately decieving the batsman.

Incredible! How come this Pakistani bowler is not labelled as 'cheat' yet?

Very interesting. Something that very few have noticed.

Innovative thinking from Asif and Rana.

The last thing we want now is for the ingenious Paks to show their bamboozled county mates how this sleight of hand is carried out.

Technique used in bowling the doosra (invented by Saqlain) though was quite readable through slow-motion replays.

Come on the ICC - surely this clever tactic should be banned. Its deceptive and could result in some opposition batsmen against Pakistan being dismissed as a result of skill - stop this now I say

wow first time i'm hearing of it but this is an ingenious technique when the batsman sees that the bowler is holding the bowl with the shine on the outside he'll think it'll swing in but when you rotate the bowl 180 the shine flips to the outside thus actually swinging away

with conventional swing ofcourse if the bowler is reversing it then the direction of swing reverses