ICC guidelines banning use of saliva will be hard on bowlers, says Wasim Jaffer
Mumbai: Former India opener Wasim Jaffer feels that the ICC tips banning the usage of saliva to shine the ball to take care of COVID-19 pandemic would make the lifetime of bowlers troublesome.
The ICC Cricket Committee, led by former India captain Anil Kumble, final month really helpful a ban on utilizing saliva on the ball as an interim measure to take care of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The ICC has come up with a solution of not using the saliva, or things like that. For bowlers, it is going to be hard to not use saliva, and not shine the ball. Then I think, it is going to be lot easier for batsmen,” Jaffer stated throughout an Insta Chat along with his employers ‘Indian Oil’.
“Again, ICC will have to make sure that the balance remains pretty equal for batsmen and bowlers and you don’t want to make it one-sided for any one of them,” added the veteran Mumbaikar, who has quite a few first-class information to his identify.
The 42-year-old Jaffer advised the usage of two new balls in Test matches and that the ICC curators must put together pitches that don’t overtly favour both the batsmen or the bowlers.
“I suggested that in a Test match you could use two new balls, that is one thing that can happen. Probably the curators can make a wicket which is even for both batsmen and bowlers, not too batting or bowling friendly,” added Jaffer, who introduced his retirement from worldwide and first-class cricket in March.
He additionally felt that will probably be exhausting for the gamers to all the time maintain the brand new guidelines in thoughts, particularly in an intense sport.
“While this pandemic is around, it is never going to be easy to predict what is going to happen (regarding the game),” he stated.
Giving an instance of two batsmen chatting in between overs, Jaffer stated they’ll discover it troublesome to comply with the brand new guidelines.
“It shall be fascinating. Cricket is just not a really bodily sport, however nonetheless, within the dressing room, you sit very shut, whereas you will area you make a huddle and the captain talks, provides you a motivating speak, it is very exhausting to take care of that distance.
“At the end of an over, batsmen come close and chat together, it is hard to follow those things and remember all those things in an intense game,” he stated.
On the private entrance, he recalled that the triple hundred he scored towards Saurashtra in his second Ranji Trophy sport, which cemented his place within the Mumbai aspect.
Later in his profession, Jaffer led Mumbai to 2 Ranji Trophy titles.
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