No spit to swing cricket balls: MCC makes significant new laws

Cricketers have used the age-old method of shining one side of the ball with saliva and sweat to help bowlers generate more movement in the air as it travels towards batters. The new laws make permanent a ban on applying saliva to the ball due to health reasons, implemented when men’s cricket resumed after a … Continue reading No spit to swing cricket balls: MCC makes significant new laws