Muralitharan - javelin thrower

[vic_orthdox]

Haha, perfectly placed Dasa.

 

[pasag]

Hahaha gun.

 

[Jono]

Lol, Dasa making use of his uni-learnt IT skills.

 

[silentstriker]

Leave McGrath out of it.

 

[Richard]

 

[Richard]

Anonymous posts, quality

Anonymous thread-starting posts are even better.

 

[Richard]

Dire.

Dire on the sentiments expressed, but I always find a nice dig a good laugh!

'Specially when I can't get the blame for it.

 

[pasag]

Dire on the sentiments expressed, but I always find a nice dig a good laugh!

'Specially when I can't get the blame for it.

Haha, somehow Dasa managed to turn the 'dire' into 'gun'.

 

[honestbharani]

Well done, Dasa. It is exactly as I pictured it.

 

[savill]

Just like all other bowlers except Ramnaresh Sarwan...



So, I wonder how good McGrath is with the javelin throwing?????????

Was it not found that McGrath is something like one degree under the limit? Or am I imagining that?

 

[Richard]

Everyone was over the old limit, because the old limit was based on false ideals - that almost every bowler never straightened their elbow in delivery.

Even the later, brief, ones - 5deg and 10deg - were stupid too. The notion that anyone could seriously keep within them is bad enough, but having separate ones for the speed the supposedly deliver at was just ludicrous.

 

[savill]

I know that only Giles and Sarwan were the only ones found to bowl with a straight arm, but I recall Michael Holding talking about it last year with Botham during a Pro40 match, and it was said McGrath was very close to the limit.

 

[Richard]

Well those 2 can't talk, they both contravened it themselves!!

 

[chipmonk]

Ahh .... years and years of higher education put to good use. Dasa you are an example to me. Why God didn't I stay in school ?

 

[savill]

Well those 2 can't talk, they both contravened it themselves!!

But it also shows just how close current bowlers are to the limit - people rave about bowlers having a repetitive action like McGraths, I don't think many people realise how much straightening of the arm happens

 

[Richard]

Well... we didn't until the research done in CT04 showed us.

 

[Ikki]

To be fair Murali could probably spin the javelin a mile, and both ways, legally.

 

[andmark]

To be fair Murali could probably spin the javelin a mile, and both ways, legally.

To be fair no one can spin a javelin.But I see what getting at.

 

[murray]

I guess the key thing with Murali is that he can choose to bowl a delivery that requires about 10 degrees more straightening than his stock delivery. Every time he bowls that delivery he is contravening the both the laws of cricket and the spirit of cricket whilst staying within the ICC parameters.

 

[honestbharani]

I guess the key thing with Murali is that he can choose to bowl a delivery that requires about 10 degrees more straightening than his stock delivery. Every time he bowls that delivery he is contravening the both the laws of cricket and the spirit of cricket whilst staying within the ICC parameters.

how is he contravening the LAWS of cricket?