Mohammad Shami requested the International Cricket Council (ICC) to “reinstate” the art of reverse swing by lifting the restriction on using saliva to shine the ball.

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 ...

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 ...

Mohammed Shami called for ICC to lift the saliva ban, stressing its role in enabling reverse swing and adding excitement for ...

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

"Reverse-swing becomes very crucial and it's something we are really working on," he says. "We know that there are bouncy wickets, but not much swing as there is in England, or even here in India.

"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 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 ...