Ajmal Action Reported

[Maximas]

Only proves he could bowl with a legal action but chose to throw instead.

Moron

 

[TNT]

More like the ICC should have cracked down earlier to give him a chance to correct his action early on.

Pakistan have a cricket bowling coach who should have told him to correct his action. ICC had been warning players that a crackdown was coming and to correct their actions. By ignoring the warnings and deliberately throwing instead of bowling left the ICC no option.

 

[smash84]

Pakistan have a cricket bowling coach who should have told him to correct his action. ICC had been warning players that a crackdown was coming and to correct their actions. By ignoring the warnings and deliberately throwing instead of bowling left the ICC no option.

Why would the coach ask him to correct his action if the ICC didn't consider it illegal?

 

[andmark]

Why would the coach ask him to correct his action if the ICC didn't consider it illegal?

I suppose lots of people thought of it as dodgy (albeit with previous ICC approval of his action) and so they could have at least tested it with a private tester after receiving the warning just to be sure and to avoid the embarrassment and inconvenience of him being banned just before the World Cup- giving him more time to change his action. It would have been tactically wise for Pakistan as well as reducing the controversy around it, with it all being done voluntarily.

 

[Daemon]

Got no problem if he bowls with that action.

I'm sure it'll deteriorate over time though so there should be regular testing for ****s who make a comeback.

 

[Daemon]

India Cricket News: Pragyan Ojha banned from bowling | ESPN Cricinfo

Well done BCCI

 

[dogwalker]

Saeed Ajmal announced he will not feature in next year's World Cup after he failed to completely correct his bowling action

.

 

[Daemon]

India Cricket News: Pragyan Ojha banned from bowling | ESPN Cricinfo

Well done BCCI

Oh, and where's your conspiracy theory now WW?

 

[harsh.ag]

It is understood that Ojha's action had been under the scanner for more than a year now, which was one of the reasons why he disappeared from the selectors' radar despite being one of the quickest Indian bowlers to reach 100 Test wickets....

Earlier this month, Ojha was released by Mumbai Indians ahead of the 2015 IPL season.

Finally a decent answer to the puzzle why Ojha was dropped. Well done to all the people involved here.

 

[hendrix]

Excellent work from the BCCI there.

Really hope WICB are doing the same with Narine but it's impossible to know what's going on behind the scenes.

 

[cnerd123]

Seems like the WICB are hiding Narine till the WC, to ensure he gets tested only once its done.

 

[Athlai]

Excellent work from the BCCI there.

Really hope WICB are doing the same with Narine but it's impossible to know what's going on behind the scenes.

They made a press release saying he would be responsible for his rehabilitation. So I doubt it.

 

[marc71178]

Guess that's what happens when you turn round to them and show you can't be arsed to play for them. Karma.

 

[andmark]

It may have been said already (with over 1000 posts in this thread, I'm sure I can be forgiven for not checking), but with the controversy of chucking in order to do the doosra and all the rest of it, does that mean that leg spin will become more popular over the next few years?

 

[fredfertang]

Rather hoping it will mean that the doosra will become less popular, indeed extinct

The problem with leg spin, and the main barrier to its popularity, is that it is difficult to bowl well - if you want to encourage leg spin, particularly in England where the wickets are seldom hard or bouncy, then the best way to do it would be to, as Bradman suggested (after he had retired) make it possible to get an lbw to a ball pitching outside leg

 

[Daemon]

It may have been said already (with over 1000 posts in this thread, I'm sure I can be forgiven for not checking), but with the controversy of chucking in order to do the doosra and all the rest of it, does that mean that leg spin will become more popular over the next few years?

Off spinners have done alright for majority of cricket's history without the doosra though right?

 

[Maximas]

The world's best finger spinner has been operating without a doosra ( the real thing not that carrom ball 'doosra' bull****) for his entire career, I suspect flight, drift, spin and guile will become more popular now

 

[cnerd123]

Rather hoping it will mean that the doosra will become less popular, indeed extinct

Why is that?

 

[Burgey]

Because no one seems capable of bowling it without chucking.

 

[cnerd123]

Saqlain Mushtaq?