Anil Kumble Clears- ban on use of saliva not permanent

Due to the ban on the use of saliva on the ball, there was disappointment among the bowlers, but now good news has come out. ICC Cricket Committee Chairman Anil Kumble has made it clear that the ban on saliva to shine the ball is an interim step, ie it is not permanent. He said that if the Kovid 19 epidemic is controlled, things will be back again as before.

To minimize the risk of infection to the players and to minimize the same, the committee led by Kumble has recommended banning the use of saliva.

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The ICC has also included this in its guidelines and suggested a ban on the use of saliva. Anil Kumble said in the Star Sports show Cricket Connected that this is just an interim measure and expects things to be under control in a few months or a year and I think things will be back to normal.

There has been a mixed reaction from bowlers across the world regarding the ban on saliva. Almost everyone says that its ban will definitely make it difficult to swing the ball, but everyone has assumed that if it is used then there will be a risk of infection.

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Kumble said the use of a substance like wax to shine the ball said that the use of external matter was negotiated. He said that if you look at the history of cricket, our focus has been on preventing external substances from coming into the game.

He said that if we are going to make the use of foreign matter official, that is, we are going to do something which has a profound effect on cricket a few years back. Kumble cited the ball-tampering case in 2018, which led to Smith, Warner and Bancroft being banned. He said that the ICC decided in this matter, but due to the strong stand taken by CA, we also considered it and discussed it in great detail.