marc71178 said:
What was the testing then?
The testing my friend is the ICC requirement these days when a bowler is reported, since mr chris broad reported the doosra to the icc as being suspicious, the test have turned out that the delivery goes beyond the "ICC approved limit", furthermore the ICC allows fast bowlers a limit of 15 degrees, so the question came out, "where/what have the ICC done to come up with these suitable requirement levels?" the likes of akthar and brett lee bowl with a 15 degree jerk. therefore the ICC will review their current tolerance levels in a meeting in sept/oct.
read this
"In these pages last week, Charles Randall explained his first hand experience of batting against Murali, who bowled to him while wearing a brace. The conclusion was that the off-spinner and the doosra - which loosely translated means 'the other one' and is the ball which has caused the recent storm - were - "legal to a widely accepted norm". Fascinating, indeed, but barely believable to anyone who has watched him play competitively.
Watch him and you reckon he chucks, simple as that. To some, this is not a problem because the batsman is not physically threatened and, anyway, the game needs his magic, they say. Once again, to others, some of whom are driven by jealousy, he is the most extreme example of cricket's worst disease.
Earlier this week we made a film with him that will be shown on Channel 4, alongside various analysis and debate, during the Friday of the Lord's Test which starts on July 22. Hopefully, we go a fair way to explaining the illusion that suggests his action is not legal.
Here is Law 24.3: "A ball is fairly delivered . . . if, once the bowler's arm has reached the level of the shoulder in the delivery swing, the elbow joint is not straightened partially or completely from that point until the ball has left the hand."
The first thing that strikes one about Murali is that his arms do not hang in the normal manner, there is a clear bend of about 30 degrees from the elbow that leads to the opening of his shoulders and hands in his stance. This is a deformity from birth and allows him to rotate his shoulders in a way I have not previously seen. The spin he imparts on the ball, either with the seam upright or vertical, comes as much from the use of his wrist as from his fingers."
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Muttiah Muralitharan has a case and he should be heard. Mark Nicholas watches him bowl in an arm brace to prove he does not chuck (July 7)