Senanayake banned

[91Jmay]

Just in: Senanayake banned from bowling in international cricket after testing finds his action to be illegal

https://twitter.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/487960664867356672

Credit to the umpires, a big call but the right one. Hardly a surprise to anyone who has watched the bloke and puts pay to some rather embarrassing conspiracy theory type thinking.

 

[GIMH]

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[Teja.]

Hopefully the positive we get out of this is more faith in the current testing and less calling out of people who have actually undergone testing and were cleared.

 

[91Jmay]

Hopefully the positive we get out of this is more faith in the current testing and less calling out of people who have actually undergone testing and were cleared.

Yeah, agreed. Also hope this puts pay to the idea that voluntary getting yourself tested (thats a weird sentence to write on a cricket forum) doesn't mean very much. So much less scrutiny obviously compared to an official one.

 

[Maximas]

Gee - all four delivery types exceeded the limit, interesting given the SL camp reckoned his action hadn't changed since he was cleared in 2011 - clearly not.

Big dent to our ODI plans going forward, particularly with the WC in mind, he's been our best LO spinner for the last year by some distance, good to see that testing works though

 

[Maximas]

Yeah, agreed. Also hope this puts pay to the idea that voluntary getting yourself tested (thats a weird sentence to write on a cricket forum) doesn't mean very much. So much less scrutiny obviously compared to an official one.

He was tested after complaints by umpires though, and why would it not mean much? The tests are the same are they not?

 

[viriya]

Wow, was not expecting that at all.. does this mean his career is over?

 

[Maximas]

Wow, was not expecting that at all.. does this mean his career is over?

Nah, he'll do some remedial work and will get re-tested again and will probably be back in the side within a year, might not have all his variations and might not be as effective though

 

[91Jmay]

He was tested after complaints by umpires though, and why would it not mean much? The tests are the same are they not?

We were regularly told that he was tested voluntarily numerous times though and had passed? How is that the case if his action hasn't changed?

 

[viriya]

Nah, he'll do some remedial work and will get re-tested again and will probably be back in the side within a year, might not have all his variations and might not be as effective though

Any precedent to that? Can't recall anyone having all their deliveries deemed illegal..

 

[Maximas]

We were regularly told that he was tested voluntarily numerous times though and had passed? How is that the case if his action hasn't changed?

To my knowledge he was tested once in 2011 after complaints by umpires during an 'A' tour of England, he went back and did some remedial work and then got himself tested in Perth at the request of SLC (before he played any international cricket), I assume his action has simply deteriorated over that time. Certainly plausible - same thing presumably happened to Shillingford

 

[Maximas]

Any precedent to that? Can't recall anyone having all their deliveries deemed illegal..

No but he's been cleared before in testing and had everybody at SLC convinced that his action hadn't changed so I don't see why it's impossible - not that I can think of an example of someone else who's done it though tbh

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Any precedent to that? Can't recall anyone having all their deliveries deemed illegal..

Isn't Shillingford allowed back but not to bowl his doosra, presume that is what Maximas means as Shillingford looks rubbish now without it.

 

[Viscount Tom]

Migara to come in and shout its a conspiracy.

 

[grecian]

Hopefully the positive we get out of this is more faith in the current testing and less calling out of people who have actually undergone testing and were cleared.

He has been cleared before, and it was always a joke. Not sure why people won't be calling out filthy actions now, if they are indeed filthy actions.

 

[Maximas]

He has been cleared before, and it was always a joke.

Sigh

 

[viriya]

Well SL will just have to make Herath the #1 choice spinner in ODIs which is a pretty safe and obvious decision..

 

[grecian]

Sigh

Okay why are you sighing, you slagged me off before for saying he had a filthy action after he'd been cleared, I said it proved that the testing isn't good enough.

Again he shouldn't be playing International cricket, 4 out of 5 of his balls are illegal. Murali was a contentious issue, but there were always good reasons to pass him. Yet Lankan supporters are now just supporting blatant chuckers. It doesn't help past arguments or future ones.

 

[Maximas]

I'm sighing because I think it's highly erroneous to claim that the test that clears him is wrong and the one that bans him is right, they were both correct

 

[grecian]

I'm sighing because I think it's highly erroneous to claim that the test that clears him is wrong and the one that bans him is right, they were both correct

Nah, in the end the first one was incomplete, it gave us a bloke who isn't an International cricketer unless he's chucking it. So it was either very wrong or e toned it down for the testing. Either way it's rubbish. The guy can't "bowl" he just can't.