Williamson, Nick Beard, Mills and until recently Botha for SA.
Gotten away with having his action tested and proven to be legal you mean?
Saw a video by Robelinda of Gannon and it looked awful but he looked absolutely sound in the Champions League T20 (I think that is when I saw him?) when I slowed down the side-on view. He looks like one of the cleanest actions now. The arm was totally straight from backfoot impact onwards.
Yep, while on field he is probably not using the same action, but a 30 degree bent arm lol
The ones who look very bad certainly have reasons for it. Past trauma, elbow surgery or hyper extensibility are some of them. You cannot take "involuntary" extension of a joint as chucking. For guys like Shoaib, the movement was in a plane perpendicular to the plane of movement at elbow joint. I'd love to see a bowler with a pseudoarthroses below elbow hurling it in with an extension at pseudoarthoses and to see what is the reaction. It's more the ones with so called clean actions should be scrutinized, more of their effort balls. Since they are once in a while doesn't look god awful. But may be genuinely chucking it. So, check all during match situations, not only a selected few.
Proven to be legal during the tests administered.
Simple. Because better bats, smaller grounds, switch hits, etc are not illegal according to cricketing law. Chucking is cheating, having a better bat isn't.
It is possible to bowl a doosra within the 15 degree allowance - which is something that most bowlers only just fit within with their regular action
Well, if his action has been deemed to look different to what was tested he will be tested again. The umpires can make that call if they think it looks different.
to be fair I don't really follow Bangladesh, obviously Murali is retired but one Sri Lankan I remember seeing in the Big Bash last year, Senenayake, had a shocking action.
"Tested and proven legal" is very different from actually being a legal action during matches.
Faster bowlers it tends to happen just as a matter of course, and even then you can barely notice it live. The major issue is with spinners. I know for me personally, that it really takes away from the enjoyment of the game when there is a bowler blatantly.
Don't be fooled by the propaganda. I don't think it is. And if it is then 15 degrees is obviously way too much.
Yes and that has always worked out so great in the past
Ok, we'll just eliminate Glenn McGrath, Richard Hadlee, Brett Lee and plenty more from the bowling records...
Watch Glenn McGrath bowl, then watch Murali bowl. And try to tell me that they are bending their arm the same amount.
I agree he had a legal action (within the new rules that were changed specifically to suit him) while being tested. Because he didn't straighten his arm as much as in matches.
