Saliva is no threat in bubble: Pollock Kane enjoys playing in Kohli’s era
Johannesburg, June 7: Cricket can resume normally and even use of saliva to shine the ball won’t pose any health risk if the matches are played inside bio-secure environment, reckons South African pace great Shaun Pollock.
England will make biosecure arrangements to host the West Indies behind closed doors for a proposed three-Test series and Pollock said such environment would not require banning any activity.
“I think the environment that’ll end up being created is almost going to be like a bubble. People will get tested, they’ll go into a twoweek camp where they’re just going to sit and monitor how the conditions of their bodies change,” Pollock told the following on a cricket podcast.
“And if there are no symptoms, it doesn’t really matter about shining the ball then, because you’re in the bubble and no one you come into contact with will have Coronavirus. So you can just get on with normal proceedings,”the former Proteas captain added in the podcast.
“I’d presume that there’d be no crowds in place, every single environment they go into would be cleaned down and sprayed, and everything along those lines,” said Pollock, who has has played 303 ODIs and 101 Tests for South Africa. —
Mumbai, June 7: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson considers himself “fortunate” to have played the game along side Virat Kohli, and said he has been closely following his Indian counterpart’s journey from a young age.
Both Williamson and Kohli featured in the 2008 ICC U19 World Cup in Malaysia, which was lifted by India and since then went on to become modern day greats of the game.
“Yes, we are fortunate to play against each other. It has been great to meet at a young age and follow his (Kohli’s) progress as well as his journey,” Williamson said on a national sports show.
“It’s been interesting, we’ve had to play against each other for a long period of time,” he said.
“But actually, probably over the last few years we just shared our views on the game, some honest thoughts and found some common grounds despite, perhaps, playing the game little bit differently in terms of physically and may be our on-field characters I suppose,” added Williamson. —