Dinesh Karthik said regarding the COVID-19 pandemic induced ban on saliva application that this ban of saliva application to shine a cricket ball won’t affect ODIs and T20Is that much but definitely it will affect the Test cricket. It will be very much tough to swing the ball after the first 20-30 overs. There have been some news of players easing into cricket nets but the captain of KKR is not one of those players. In a zoom call, he said most of the players have got into the schedule which includes waking up, training, eating, watching TV, and sleeping.