Twitter reacts to ‘ignorant’ Amit Mishra using saliva as umpires fail to sanitize ball despite contamination

09/29/2020

Amit Mishra might have bowled a wonderful spell, but that is not going to stop him getting flak. Mid-way through his spell, the veteran bafflingly put saliva on the ball, but, worse, did not inform the umpires, who as a result did not sanitize the ball. Twiteratti lambasted Mishra over the same.

How can Umpires not notice this??

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— faceplatter49 (@faceplatter49) September 29, 2020

Not fair in this Pandemic!!

@IPL icc has Banned use of saliva and players have to use sweat instead of saliva .. still Amit mishra bowling at 6.1 over of the inning used saliva to shine the ball ...
— Ayush Shukla (@Ayush200Shukla) September 29, 2020

Yeah!

I think I just saw Amit Mishra licking his palms twice while bowling in the over. Wasn't saliva usage banned? Shouldn't the umpires at least whipe the ball? #ipl2020 #SRHvDC
— Aritra Mukherjee (@aritram029) September 29, 2020

How is it allowed?

@IPL Amit Mishra after 6.1 overs was seen putting saliva ! Is it okay ✅, I thought it was banned due to pandemic !
— Gaurav Khale (@khale_gaurav) September 29, 2020

Not a legal one I guess!!

#ipl2020 #SRHvsDC Amit Mishra applying saliva on the ball, is it still legal 😧
— Nirjhar Majumder (@nirjhar2014) September 29, 2020

@BCCI @IPL - Why is Amit Mishra applying saliva to the ball?? DCvsSRH??@SunRisers @DelhiCapitals @bhogleharsha @IrfanPathan @BrettLee_58 @SGanguly99 @DeepDasgupta7 @ImSanjayBangar
— Sahbaan khan (@sahbaankhan) September 29, 2020