: Coronavirus: Shane Warne suggests using weighted cricket balls to avoid saliva and tampering #IndiaNEWS Australian spin legend Shane Warne has offered a unique answer to the question of how to swing

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Coronavirus: Shane Warne suggests using weighted cricket balls to avoid saliva and tampering #IndiaNEWS
Australian spin legend Shane Warne has offered a unique answer to the question of how to swing the ball without using saliva or resorting to tampering in a post coronavirus world – make one side of the ball heavier to ensure that it doesn’t need any shining.Warne feels it can help fast bowlers generate swing even on flat wickets and permanently eradicate ball-tampering.“Why can’t the ball be weighted on one side so it always swings? It would be like a taped tennis ball or like with the lawn bowls,� Warne told Sky Sports Cricket Podcast.There is speculation that the use of saliva to shine the ball will be stopped to cut down the risk of the highly contagious.Reacting to this situation, Australian manufacturer Kookaburra has started developing a wax applicator – which could be ready in a month – as an alternative to saliva and sweat to help bowlers shine cricket balls.“I’m not sure you’d want it to hoop around corners like Wasim (Akram) and Waqar (Younis) but it could swing and give the seamer something on flat wickets when it’s hot and the pitch is at its flattest on day two, day three,� Warne said.“It would actually be a really good way to move forward, as you know no one needs...Read more

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