New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips Broke A Big Rule Of Cricket, Will ICC Take Action?

BAN vs NZ 2023: New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips broke a big rule of cricket, will ICC take action? During the World Cup 2023, there was a lot of controversy over rules like umpire’s call, time out.

Now after the end of the World Cup, a new controversy has emerged in the world of cricket. Let us tell you that since the Corona period, ICC had implemented a rule that no player or bowler of the fielding team can use saliva on the ball.

This is because Corona infection spread by getting infected from each other. Since then this rule has been implemented continuously. Now a New Zealand cricketer has created controversy by applying saliva on the ball.

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Who Broke The Rules?

If we talk about who is that player, then New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips has broken this rule. The test match is being played in Sylhet against Bangladesh and New Zealand.

The controversy came to light on the third day of the match when Phillips used saliva on the ball while bowling. If we talk about the rules, ICC has completely banned it and it came into effect from 1 October 2022.

What Are The Complete Rules Of ICC?

If we talk about ICC rules, then if any player of any team uses saliva on the ball, then he will be found guilty of violation of Law 41.3 of the ICC Constitution.

In this situation, a penalty of five runs will be imposed on that player’s team. Some people might be wondering whether there will be a ban for this, no, till now no rule has been brought by ICC to ban it.

Nepal Player Alishan Sharafu Had Used Saliva On The Ball:-

A similar case had come up before this also. This happened in November 2022 when an ODI match was being played between Nepal and UAE. In that match, Nepal player Alishan Sharafu used saliva on the ball.

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After that, his team was fined five runs as a penalty. This has not happened yet in the Sylhet Test match. But Mominul Haq of Bangladesh gave this information to the reporters. But field umpires Ahsan Raza and Paul Rifle have not interfered in this matter.
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