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They swapped to a size 4 ball from a size 5. I've seen a picture of the match, I think in a book by Frank Swift, and the ball looks very silly.

Cheating has been going on longer than that. In 1947 Portugal changed the ball for a smaller one, during a match against England but still lost 10-0. I'm sure there are much earlier examples but that's one of the strangest.