Hafeez reported to the ICC for chucking

[nightprowler10]

What came from this? Couldn't help but think that it looked iffy on today's viewing (first time I've seen him bowl close-up).

I must've missed that. Never knew about it. He's been bowling with that action since last summer.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Looked rather dodgy to me today, not chucking, but a certain amount of flexing.

 

[haroon510]

Whata lol hhhaa
i thought he was reported just after the match of WI today. i was like that was pretty fast i was watching the match like one hour ago lol

 

[Jono]

His action is very jerky, sort of stop-start.

 

[honestbharani]

His action is very jerky, sort of stop-start.

he basically stops at the popping crease and then delivers the ball. Is that allowed? I am not well up on the laws re. bowling apart from the chucking and flex parts, but is there any rule that says that the action should in one motion. Because he does get a HUGE advantage by stopping right before he delivers the ball. It is almost impossible to come down the track and connect because he will always see that initial movement of the batter and since he stops, he can change his length and trajectory.

And if that is, in fact, allowed, I think more and more bowlers will (and should) practice that. They will become very very hard to get away, as I think Hafeez will be throughout this world cup.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Robert Croft used to deliver a ball like that as variation. I guess what he does though is lose all the momentum that he'd gotten up to that point, and ends up with less "work" on the ball.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Absolutely no problem with it. Biomechanically it's really not that helpful - as Jack says - you lose the momentum you've built up; you see a lot of kids bowling who charge in off 20 yards then slow right down and almost stop by the crease - they'd be better off running in hard off 3 steps but try telling them that...

 

[Jono]

Absolutely no problem with it. Biomechanically it's really not that helpful - as Jack says - you lose the momentum you've built up; you see a lot of kids bowling who charge in off 20 yards then slow right down and almost stop by the crease - they'd be better off running in hard off 3 steps but try telling them that...

Haha so true, however try telling that to some of the under 10s. That's a good example of it though.

 

[Richard]

What came from this? Couldn't help but think that it looked iffy on today's viewing (first time I've seen him bowl close-up).

What's the difference vis-a-vis Shoaib Malik?

Probably both just false illusions.