Cricketers have traditionally used saliva to shine one side of the ball, smoothen the surface, and make it a tad heavier on ...

Mohammad Shami requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to “reinstate” the art of reverse swing by lifting the ...

By the 1950s Ray Lindwall was combining in-and outswing at will and at pace. Now we have reverse-swing to perplex batsmen and spectators alike. Just as physicists were starting to account for ...

The saliva ban was first introduced in May 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic as a temporary measure, and then fast forward to ...

These are known as the shiny side and the rough side. The ball must be 45 or more overs old before it will reverse swing. When the ball is five or more overs old, the bowler decides which side he/she ...

"And I explained to him that he had been bowling at a speed where the ball hits the "zero" mark - in other words - where it crosses over from conventional to reverse swing. If he knew at the time ...

Indian paceman Zaheer Khan during the second Test in Mohali. Australia's inability to reverse swing the ball is a cause of concern as they head into the third Test 1-0 down, skipper Ricky Ponting ...

Indian pace bowler Mohammed Shami has talked about how the ban on using saliva has affected reverse swing as he wants the International Cricket Council (ICC) to change this rule. Shami says that ...

Former internationals Vernon Philander and Tim Southee have backed Mohammed Shami's call to revoke the ban of saliva usage on the ball to bring back the reverse swing in play. The ICC had banned ...

India coach Gautam Gambhir afterwards lashed out at critics who have said playing at the same Dubai International Cricket Stadium each time is unfair.

With right-handers Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva at the crease, Starc was straight around the wicket with an apparent suggestion of reverse swing. And so it proved. Chandimal worked his ...