Shami who has been regularly practicing and keeping in touch with the sport by playing indoor cricket with his family was back to outdoor training in the nets recently,tweeting a video of him bowling in his hometown in Uttar Pradesh.
On Sunday, the pace spearhead posted another video of his workout at the gym on Twitter. "Word hard," Shami said along with the video.
Shami had recently given his take on the revised guidelines by ICC on the saliva ban on the red cherry, stating that that it will take at least a month to get used to the new norm. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has temporarily banned the usage of saliva for shining the ball as a preventive measure to ensure the safe resumption of cricket amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"Using saliva is a habit now. Replacing it with an external substance like wax or Vaseline is going to be difficult. We'll need to assess how well the external substance works and will need at least a month to get used to it. Otherwise it's a guaranteed fine on us bowlers," Shami told ESPNcricinfo.
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Shami has been part of a lethal Indian seam battery that is widely hailed among the best in contemporary Test cricket. It includes Ishant Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Commenting on who bowls with the new ball, Shami says, it's often a difficult choice, especially when the first-choice trio of himself, Ishant and Bumrah play together.
"We surround Virat Kohli and ask him to make the decision," Shami said. "But he normally says, 'don't get me involved in all this; you decide among yourselves, I don't have an issue.' That is the kind of fun we have in our team meetings. I let the other two start. I have no objection to bowling with a semi-new ball."