West Indies legend Michael Holding has shared his views on the use of the artificial substance to shine the ball during the game in the post-COVID-19 situation, saying that he was not sure how it would work since bowlers used to polish the ball with saliva. However, there is speculation that the use of saliva to shine the ball will be stopped after cricket resumes post this crunch situation. Holding said that it is a normal process for bowlers to apply saliva or sweat to shine the ball. The legendary pacer recently said on the 'Sony Ten Pit Stop' show aired on channel's Facebook page.

On the other hand, Australian ball-maker Kookaburra has recently started making a wax applicator as an alternate to saliva or sweat to shine the ball, but Holding shared that it wouldn’t be possible in near future as well.

"Obviously over a period of time, you will learn and you will adjust. I'm hearing talks about producing some sort of polish that the umpires will take, will keep and you shine the ball in front of the umpire. I am not too sure on how that's going to work, to be honest," he said.

He again added, "What sort of polish is that going to be, will it be something that sticks on your fingers, will it be slippery, because if that is something that is slippery, you don't want to be having slippery fingers, to grip the ball it is going to be more difficult, I am waiting to hear all the details. It is going to be a different world and as far as I am concerned it will be a logical nightmare to keep all those things in place."

Holding, who had picked up 249 wickets from 60 Tests in his cricketing career, said that he doesn't understand why there is so much chaos about using saliva on the ball when the cricket will resume.