モハメッド・シャミは、インドのチームがICCにこのルールを変更することを望んでいることを明らかにします

Mohammed Shami has revealed that the India cricket team wants the International Cricket Council (ICC) to make a rule change. As a bowler, the right-arm pacer feels that one rule that was changed in 2022 needs to be reverted back to the original. The rule change in question is the ‘no saliva’ one.

ICC’s no saliva rule

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the ICC needed to make sure cricket resumes and that they don’t spread the virus. Players weren’t allowed to shake hands either. If saliva was used on the ball, the virus could have been spread as each player of the bowling team and the umpires would be infected.

Reverse swing is dependent on the use of saliva

ICC did allow the players to use sweat. However, since they couldn’t use saliva, they weren’t able to ‘make the ball.’ To reverse swing the ball, one side of the ball must be protected. One side looks scratchy, scuffed up, and used. The other looks brand new. Since the shiny side has more weight, it swings late towards that side.

In Asian sides where the outfield and pitch aren’t green and lush, the ball starts to reverse. But saliva is needed to take care of the ball. However, the ICC hasn’t allowed it to do so. The covid-19 pandemic is over, but they aren’t reinstating the old rule. Shami, who’s playing in the ICC Champions Trophy in Dubai, wants the ICC to change this rule. He claims that Team India has asked the international body to reconsider their stance.

“We are trying to reverse, but you are not getting the use of saliva into the game. We are constantly appealing to allow the use of saliva, and it will be interesting with the reverse swing,” Shami told reporters in Dubai today (March 5).