Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Ball Doping

After it came to light that Trescothick was using sweets to shine the ball ICC and WADA have introduced new legislation to check for ball doping. Saliva of the fielding cricket team and the ball itself will be checked during each break to check for substances like sugar, balm, sunscreen, etc. or the chemicals that go in them. An upper limit of 0.0001 gms/ml has been put as the upper limit for all the junk in the saliva. Umpire Hair in his teaching capacity has already started to look at spit of many players that he claims he can distinguish by texture, taste and feel. He feels by employing these methods he can actually tell who is ball doping better than any test or camera can.

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