Former South Africa speedster Allan Donald feels the International Cricket Council (ICC) should legalise ball tampering to prevent the growing hegemony of batsmen in world cricket.

"The ICC would shoot me for saying it but, with the wickets that we play on and the dying breed fast bowlers are becoming on these flatter wickets, I would say we do need some sort of defence mechanism, something to fall back on to say 'Right, we can do this. We can now prepare this ball to go'," Donald told Cricinfo.