Suspect actions in the news since June

Suspect actions in the news since June

3 June: Sri Lanka off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake is reported for a suspected illegal bowling action and ordered to undergo testing within 21 days.

22 June: New Zealand off-spinner Kane Williamson is reported for a suspected illegal bowling action and ordered to undergo testing within 21 days.

28 June: The ICC Cricket Committee meets in Melbourne and recommends an increased focus on bowlers with questionable actions.

12 July: Senanayake is banned from bowling by the ICC after undergoing official testing in Cardiff.

23 July: Williamson is banned from bowling by the ICC after undergoing official testing in Cardiff.

11 August: Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal is reported for a suspected illegal bowling action and ordered to undergo testing within 21 days.

15 August: The ICC confirms three newly accredited testing centres will be unveiled in the coming months.

22 August: Zimbabwe off-spinner Prosper Utseya is reported for a suspected illegal bowling action and ordered to undergo testing within 21 days.

25 August: Bangladesh off-spinner Sohag Gazi is reported for a suspected illegal bowling action and ordered to undergo testing within 21 days.

25 August: Ajmal begins official testing at Cricket Australia's National Cricket Centre in Brisbane.

9 September: Ajmal banned with immediate effect by ICC. Pakistan Cricket Board say they will weigh up their options, while Ajmal says a medical condition is to blame and he remains confident of playing in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.

10 September: Bangladesh fast bowler Al-Amin Hossain is reported for a suspected illegal bowling action and ordered to undergo testing within 21 days.

13 September: PCB release details of ICC report that show Ajmal was found to be straightening arm nearly three times the legal limit.

Thanks Chairs, please do update this thread periodically - let's make it a sorta log kinda thing.

And Ajmal's "medical condition" lol - I don't really think he has any clue what he's talking about. It's not about ARM BEND, but about how much you STRAIGHTEN - so you're telling me there's some bizarre medical condition that automatically makes you straighten your arm 15+ degrees? LMAO

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."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/co...85089.html

Pakistan Ban 26 Spinners from their national Leagues...

Two more players, Mohammad Hafeez and Prenelan Subrayen, have been reported due to suspect actions.

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.

Hafeez reported

Haha go Stevie boy! Loved that interview.

Also, glad that Hafeez got reported. It can't be just me who felt his action looked dodgy af. Seemed like blatant pelting sometimes.

With all the bowlers being reported for suspect action I think the icc should start having some bowling clinics every couple of months to show the players what is acceptable and what is not. It is obviously a coaching issue and not knowing the rules for bowling a legal delivery. Maybe the problem is the icc and they should relax the rules a little.

John Davidson, a Cricket Australia spin coach has voiced his concerns that the recent crackdown in penalising bowlers with suspect or illegal actions might be too little, too late, fearing that many upcoming cricketers who have grown up emulating their heroes might be at risk.

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.

ICC's reaction to illegal actions too late

I would like to se the equipment the umps use to determined the suspect action


And the the ones used to test it

Waqar Younis feels that the crackdown on suspect actions should have taken place AFTER the World Cup. 

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.

I guess his outburst should come as no surprise given that both Ajmal and Hafeez have been reported for their suspect actions.