RE: Do You Lick Your Balls

We all know that as far the integrity of the game is concerned, spitting on the ball is the least of crickets problems!

I think there is a legitimate health concern. I was reading a study the other day that links a very large number of cases within Europe to a single apre-ski party in the Alps during the February half-term. The bar in question had multiple beer pong tables which must have been like a wet dream for a communicable disease. The dynamics are not too disimilar to a cricketer licking their fingers and rubbing the ball and then throwing it to their teammate who does the same!