FILE PHOTO: India's Sachin Tendulkar shines the ball during a practice session in Centurion, South Africa, March 13, 2003. REUTERS/Arko Datta/File Photo
MUMBAI (Reuters) - From shining the ball to celebrating a dismissal - certain things may never be the same again when cricket restarts after the novel coronavirus pandemic, Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar told Reuters.
Cricketers use the age-old method of shining one side of the cricket ball with a combination of saliva and sweat, ostensibly to help bowlers generate more swing in the air.
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