Former England captain Nasser Hussain has shared that he is not in favour of having injury substitutes in cricket. The veteran also explained that players can use the rule to their advantage. His comments came following Rishabh Pant’s foot injury as well.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Hussain said: “I am not a fan, I have to be honest, because if you make any change to the playing condition and the law, the players use that to their advantage. You can use the substitute to your advantage. If it was a like-for-like substitute, like with concussion substitutes, then maybe. But even with concussion substitutes, we have seen occasionally some odd changes.”

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“So you could have four days of a game and suddenly you want a slightly different type of spinner, you may want to go from a finger spinner to a wrist spinner and then miraculously, your finger spinner has got a hamstring injury and you swap it over. Anything you change, players will work with that change to try and use it to their advantage. So, I am not sure about having substitutes in cricket because it can be manoeuvred in a certain direction,” Nasser Hussain concluded.