As in September, 2022 International Cricket Council (ICC) release emergency provisions for the Covid-19 saliva to be banned permanently.
An old video goes viral where RCB’s former captain got away without being hit with an IPL game penalty earlier because he would have been caught in a different fortnight back; Virat Kohli experienced playing a few hoops around some saliva conditioned ball. Given the IPL season earlier this year during Kohli’s six-year-long tenure as RCB captain, this old video of him has resurfaced online and become the center of attention for fans, enthusiasts or critical voices.
Players have trusted in their own saliva plus sweat to shine one side of a cricket ball, thereby helping it swing aerially. The ICC has also implemented a range of other instant changes to games that you should note:
Raising the Batters’ Watch: For Test matches as well as One-Day Internationals, the batters have to be ready to take strike within two minutes.
Obligation on the striker to play: The striker has to make sure that some portion of his bat or body sticks inside the pitch.
Penalty for fielding: If the team fielding fails to complete its overs inside the time limit, it has to put another fielder onto the ring for remaining overs. If the ICC’s proposed changes go through, however, India’s striking pair will have to forget their flick-shot-based game altogether and concentrate instead on running hard between wickets.
View this post on Instagram
RCB played two games in IPL 2024 so far. They were defeated by 6 wickets at Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the first, and then they came back strongly to win by 4 wickets against Punjab Kings. Notably, captain Virat Kohli’s bat was blazing during this latest game. He scored 77 runs from 49 balls as RCB triumphed.
