Do you really think he knows how bad it looks?No; cricket altogether IMO.
It's one thing to have a kink in your action that needs to be fixed up, but Samuels appears to be outright cheating. He's already had this delivery declared a throw, had remedial work and got cleared only to come back and bowl it again anyway. Now I take it all back if it's discovered he's somehow not throwing this delivery anymore but I somehow doubt it.
Shah 50 off 19? What are they bowling at him?
Yes. Say what you want about Shah, but the bowling was fine, he just batted outstandingly. A lot of balls in the slot, but the ones which were shorter were 4 or 6 without much exception.Its not been terrible tbh... these two have just batted amazingly well... shah just hit a perfect yorker from Zaheer khan for a boundary
AWTAzRAHANE!
This guy should be a lock in for ODI's and tests IMO. Good technique and can strike it big when required. Can't ask for anything more.
Would be interesting to see how Mukund would do. Obviously coming into the team ahead of Vijay and coming off the back of a prolific season with the bat in the First Class format. The sort of form he was in, I don't think you could take it as irrelevant across formats.Rahane also justifying my slagging of the Indian selectors for so long for ignoring him altogether while compared with his glorified Ranji team mate in Rohit(not putting Rohit down either, ftr). And also showing why Mumbai Indians were stupid to not play him for 3 seasons, and though Rajasthan took him and gave him a chance last time they somewhat didn't use him properly.
Now only if CSK would play Mukund FFS. Sadly Pujara still hasn't been able to adapt to T20.
You know it isn't as simple as all that? "Cheating" is a pretty harsh word. Often the bend occurs at a very subconscious level, and the bowler might think all's gold with his action but outwardly it appears otherwise. It's a bit disingenuous to suggest people at this level set out to chuck. The same thing happened with me as a medium pacer (at a very amateur, club level) and I could swear I wasn't doing it but everybody around me seemed to say I did. It can be quite frustrating.No; cricket altogether IMO.
It's one thing to have a kink in your action that needs to be fixed up, but Samuels appears to be outright cheating. He's already had this delivery declared a throw, had remedial work and got cleared only to come back and bowl it again anyway. Now I take it all back if it's discovered he's somehow not throwing this delivery anymore but I somehow doubt it.
That makes for a good brain teaserRoughly how many games do you reckon you can lose and still get to the finals?
Yeah AWTA, have some personal experience with an action that others have observed isn't the most classical - it's very difficult to change something you've been doing for years, especially when you bowl far better in every way with your natural action.You know it isn't as simple as all that? "Cheating" is a pretty harsh word. Often the bend occurs at a very subconscious level, and the bowler might think all's gold with his action but outwardly it appears otherwise. It's a bit disingenuous to suggest people at this level set out to chuck. The same thing happened with me as a medium pacer (at a very amateur, club level) and I could swear I wasn't doing it but everybody around me seemed to say I did. It can be quite frustrating.
Yeah, but surely it's different when there's only been one variation that has been classified as a throw, which is the situation for Samuels. He has had his quicker ball tested, and (AFAIK) it was classified as a throw, but everything else is alright. I'm not sure whether he's had it retested and it's OK now though, but if that's not the case, then it doesn't matter whether he means it or not, he knows that his quicker ball is a throw, he shouldn't be allowed to use it.You know it isn't as simple as all that? "Cheating" is a pretty harsh word. Often the bend occurs at a very subconscious level, and the bowler might think all's gold with his action but outwardly it appears otherwise. It's a bit disingenuous to suggest people at this level set out to chuck. The same thing happened with me as a medium pacer (at a very amateur, club level) and I could swear I wasn't doing it but everybody around me seemed to say I did. It can be quite frustrating.
Yep, exactly.Yeah, but surely it's different when there's only been one variation that has been classified as a throw, which is the situation for Samuels. He has had his quicker ball tested, and (AFAIK) it was classified as a throw, but everything else is alright. I'm not sure whether he's had it retested and it's OK now though, but if that's not the case, then it doesn't matter whether he means it or not, he knows that his quicker ball is a throw, he shouldn't be allowed to use it.
No he chucked everything, badly.Yeah, but surely it's different when there's only been one variation that has been classified as a throw, which is the situation for Samuels. He has had his quicker ball tested, and (AFAIK) it was classified as a throw, but everything else is alright. I'm not sure whether he's had it retested and it's OK now though, but if that's not the case, then it doesn't matter whether he means it or not, he knows that his quicker ball is a throw, he shouldn't be allowed to use it.
Haha.No he chucked everything, badly.
BBC SPORT | Cricket | International Teams | West Indies | Samuels issued with bowling ban
27 degrees for regular off-break and 35 for the quicker ball.
thats an old link rt ?Haha.
Assuming though that he must've been doing some sort of modification to his action and he's shown that he can bowl within the limit if he's been allowed to bowl again? Couldn't even be an IPL thing, think he bowled in the ODI series vs Australia.