England players use \u2018back sweat\u2019 in an attempt to shine the ball. Having been banned from using saliva to shine the balls, the England players have turned to a new, innovative solution. Just like most people around the world, working from home, using virtual setups to go through their day to day schedules, similarly even cricketers have had to use their creativity to solve their problems.<\/p>\n
In this case, the English players have resorted to applying back sweat to shine the ball, in the ongoing test vs West Indies. This is the first sign of cricket returning, albeit in a world of new-normals characterised by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Back sweat has been the major thing at the moment with saliva going out the window,\u201d Wood said. \u201cOnly your own, although we\u2019re mingling the back sweat a little on the ball, I\u2019ve got some of Jimmy (Anderson\u2019s) and Jofra (Archer\u2019s).\u201d<\/p>\n
England witnessed a disappointing second day on Thursday with West Indies bundling the visitors out for 204 in their first innings.<\/p>\n
And Wood admitted that they haven\u2019t had the best outing so far in the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t had the best day so plenty to do. I\u2019d prefer a few in the wickets column rather than the pace column,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey bowled well and got to give them credit. But 204 wasn\u2019t on the radar, we\u2019d have liked 250 or 300. He went on to add that they did not get their line and length right. Mentioning further that it was a bit of \u2018cobwebs and rust\u2019.<\/p>\n
England players used innovative solutions to shine the ball in the first test against West Indies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}