[简答题] Stumped Rawalpindi He has a normal head, but nestling between his massive shoulders it seems small. He is Shoaib Akhtar, "the Rawalpindi Express", the fastest recorded bowler of a cricket ball in history. And right now, before a small but baying crowd at the Rawalpindi Cricket Ground, he is steaming towards this correspondent. From 22 yards, Mr. Akhtar launches into the weirdly beautiful contortion that fast bowlers perform to hurl a six-ounce lump of cork and leather at up to 100mph. Half a second later, the ball demolishes the stumps. For over two centuries, cricket has been played according to a largely unwritten code of honour for the practical reason that its laws are too complicated for officials to enforce to the reality. But technology has been rewriting the old etiquette. And according to some recent research, one of cricket’’s most basic laws is untenable, and now the game is in turmoil. According to law 24. 3, bowlers may not str