Chuckers

[Maximas]

Look at the photo and then look at the brace in the video and tell me that the brace could go on his arm the way he is bowling in the photo.

Watch the video where he uses the brace and note how there is pretty much no difference in how he bowls with and without it

 

[jonbrooks]

Watch the video where he uses the brace and note how there is pretty much no difference in how he bowls with and without it

I'd have to disagree with you here. When he's got the brace on he's action looks perfectly fine. It's in game when sometimes his action looks particularly bad. That is when I believe he's chucking the ball.

 

[jonbrooks]

I'll play along though, who are these high profile chuckers then?

You know very well who they are. I don't have to name any names here.

 

[marc71178]

You know very well who they are. I don't have to name any names here.

Actually no, I don't know who you misguidedly think is a chucker so you do have to name names.

 

[jonbrooks]

Actually no, I don't know who you misguidedly think is a chucker so you do have to name names.

No I don't. That's the beauty of this forum. I'll just let you wallow in your ignorance! ;-)

 

[marc71178]

There's only one person showing ignorance here and it's not me.

 

[Migara]

If people think their eyes are so wonderful why is this hate against BCCI for not using DRS? Let's ask third ump to retire since guys have so good eyes to decide on decisions

 

[the big bambino]

Because human judgment isn't infallible either. Really the eye isn't at fault. Technology just slows down the evidence for us. The fallibility occurs when we misjudge what we see.

 

[marc71178]

If people think their eyes are so wonderful why is this hate against BCCI for not using DRS? Let's ask third ump to retire since guys have so good eyes to decide on decisions

Most people don't think that though, it's only the misguided ones.

 

[the big bambino]

Fair enough. Whatever you reckon...

 

[marc71178]

Fair enough. Whatever you reckon...

Wasn't responding to you!

 

[the big bambino]

Wasn't responding to you!

Oh cripes! So you weren't. My apologies.

 

[Daemon]

People really need to read the whole thread before posting the exact same thing that's been shot down multiple times.

 

[GIMH]

Guys if there's one thing I can't stand it's people posting without seeing if someone else has already made or debunked their point. Read then reply, k?

 

[the big bambino]

I feel your pain brothers. Now you know how I feel when the next one says that cricket wasn't professional until the 1980s or that the only man who bowled fast before the war was Larwood. All the rest were no faster than Jeremy Coney apparently.

 

[Spark]

Long-sleeved tops on the agenda?

Does donning the long sleeves give some spinners in world cricket an advantage or not?

That’s a question that some may feel India’s most recent man of the match, Ravi Ashwin, has put firmly on cricket’s agenda.

Ashwin has been tinkering with his bowling action in recent times, and some were critical when he resorted to wearing a long-sleeved cricket top and bowling with what some labelled a ‘Sunil Narine-like action’ in an Asia Cup match in February.

Interestingly, while not naming anyone specifically, Ashwin’s justification this weekend for bowling with his elbows covered in that match have been picked up as a news story by various media outlets.

"I wanted to do something different. Unless you try, you won't find out what can work or not. I had never bowled in full-sleeves before. So I wanted to see how it would feel. That's point number one," Ashwin said, prior to taking on Australia on Sunday night.

"And I just wanted to see if you can get more revs on the ball if you can do a little bit with your elbow, as much as that is.

“You can get a lot of advantage with these things, so why should I lag behind if someone else is getting a competitive edge?"

Spinners who bowl with long sleeves include the West Indies’ Narine and Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal, who uses the doosra extensively (story continues below video).

 

[Top_Cat]

All this scientific testing yet Kyle Mills' chucking seems to have gone unnoticed for 10 years?

Am I the only person who thinks he chucks?

Always thought his was more hyper-extension but, without testing, y'know....

 

[G.I.Joe]

Long-sleeved tops on the agenda?

Brings the issue right out into the open, doesn't it? Perennial long sleeve bowlers must be feeling the heat.

 

[Furball]

If that elbow quote isn't a misprint then it's a joke that he's allowed to bowl.

 

[Jono]

As I said in the other thread, FMD he has balls to come out and say this. He either thinks that Ajmal and Narine are doing something "more" than he is doing, and hence this is a way to call them out without actually doing it, or he's gone bat**** crazy.