Quote: Australian left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe has supported the ICC's crackdown on suspect bowling actions and has stated that the ICC's rule of allowing a 15-degree flex while bowling was adequate.

"I think originally when the laws came in you were allowed zero degrees," O'Keefe told the Sydney Morning Herald. "They brought in 15 degrees to give blokes that leeway. If you go past it in my mind you've been given a little bit of room and if you're going past that 15 degrees, you're taking the p**s.

"I'm sure there are guys that have got reasons why and if physically they can't bowl legally, then fair enough. But the rules are in place for a reason and all throughout the game guys will try and push the rules to a certain point, but I think once you step over that line you have to pay the price, whatever that is at ICC level. It's not fair, to be honest.

"I'm glad that they [ICC] are not going further with it as 15 degrees is enough. It should be zero, really. You should be trying to bowl with a straight arm."

Quote:Lahore Lions offspinner Mohammad Hafeez has been reported for a suspect bowling action by the umpires, following the team's Champions League T20 match against Dolphins in Bangalore on Saturday evening. Dolphins offspinner Prenelan Subrayen was also reported.

Under Champions League guidelines, both players could request for an official assessment from the BCCI's suspect bowling action committee. For now, while they can continue to play for their teams without assessment, they have been placed on the tournament's 'warning list' as per its rules. If they are reported again, while still on the warning list, the players will be suspended from bowling in the tournament - and in any cricket organised by the BCCI - until their actions are cleared.

Quote:"I was in Sri Lanka a couple of months ago and 90 per cent of the bowlers over there bowl spin," Davison told The Age. "I reckon 90 per cent of kids coming through would have what I would call an illegal action.

"There's going to be a generation of cricketers in the subcontinent who are going to struggle to bowl with a legal action. These kids have grown up copying their heroes and now it's going to come back to haunt them.

"You look at most international spinners going around at the moment and the majority are definitely what you would call suspect, and kids copy what international guys are doing.

Quote:Is this the right time to enforce the protocols and the technology?" Waqar told AFP. "I am asking this because every team plans ahead of the World Cup, and the suspensions will badly hit the teams whose bowlers got suspended or questioned. I mean the protocols and the technology should have been enforced after the World Cup.