NEW DELHI: Former
England spinner Monty Panesar
has backed the idea of using wax to shine the cricket ball as players have been banned from using
saliva
.
The
International Cricket Council
(
ICC
) has already announced a temporary ban on applying saliva to the ball as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus.
In an interaction with ANI, Panesar said that the ICC should really think about bringing in an alternative to protect the game from becoming batsmen dominant.
"You can have wax which can be used throughout the Test match, you could apply it on the ball to shine the ball, this will be a good option. Look, at the end of the day you cannot make the game too batsmen friendly because then it will be difficult for the bowlers to take wickets," Panesar told ANI.
"The wax can be tried perhaps in training first, but we need some sort of substance on the ball because if there is no substance and saliva is banned, the game might become batsmen dominant," he added.
When Panesar was asked whether the saliva ban will impact spinners or not, he replied: "Yeah, I agree that saliva ban is only going to impact the fast bowlers, spinners tend to spin the bowl, maybe they drift it a little bit and that's about it".
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