ICC set to change chucking rules/Murali cleared(Merged)

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**ICC set to change chucking rules **](BBC SPORT | Cricket | Chucking rules set to be changed)

The International Cricket Council is set to change the rules to allow all players to bend their arms when bowling, according to reports.
It is claimed that a 15 degree flexing of the arm will be permitted following an extensive research programme conducted by biomechanics experts.

Previously only 10 degrees for fast bowlers and five degrees for spinners were permitted.

The change has to be approved by the ICC Cricket Committee in November.

If the green light is given, it would allow Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan to bowl his controversial ‘doosra’.

The delivery was outlawed by the ICC last May after receiveing a report which was jointly produced by Sri Lanka Cricket and the University of Western Australia.

The report showed an initial straightening of Muralitharan’s arm of around 14 degrees, which after some remedial work was reduced to 10 degrees.

Pakistan’s spin bowling all-rounder Shoaib Malik is the latest player to fall foul of existing regulations.

His action was reported to the ICC by umpires Simon Taufel and Aleem Dar following last month’s one-day Paktel Cup triangular series.

Shoaib Akhtar’s action has also come under scrutiny in the past

And a Daily Telegraph report claims the ICC findings have shown that 99% of all bowlers in history have not had legal actions.

Malik’s team-mate Shoaib Akhtar has been reported three times during his career.

A 2001 report by the University of Western Australia’s Department of Human Movement concluded Shoaib’s action was legal.

The report said his action was due to “unique physical characteristics - that he had hyper-mobility in both his shoulder and elbow joints”.

Australia’s Brett Lee, Shoaib’s rival for the title of world’s fastest bowlers, was investigated and cleared in 2000.

The decision to recommend a change to the rules follows a recent meeting of a special ICC Sub-Commitete on Flawed Bowling Actions in Dubai.

Chaired by ICC general manager Dave Richardson, the panel also includes former West Indies paceman Michael Holding, former England captain Tony Lewis, ex-England seam bowler Angus Fraser and former Australia off-spinner Tim May.

Chucking has been a thorny subject for cricket administrators ever since Australia’s Ian Meckiff was called four times in an over during a Test series against South Africa in 1963-64.

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well it's a good thing like on cricinfi.they said "As Angus Fraser - one of six former Test cricketers on the committee that reviewed illegal bowling actions in Dubai recently - wrote in The Independent, even the likes of Fred Trueman, Dennis Lillee, Curtly Ambrose, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, and Ian Botham were found to have exceeded the straightening-limit set by the ICC."i think now Malik won't have any probs.

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I think this is getting done to accomodate "big famous" bowlers like Murali, Shoaib etc

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99% of all bowlers chuck…:rolleyes: :slight_smile:

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This chucking is such bullcrap. If the batsmen are allowed to reverse sweep, play paddle shot, change their stance after the ball is delivered, come down the pitch, score even if they miss the ball (leg byes and byes), then why the hell can't bowlers bowl with a little bend in the arm??????????

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*Originally posted by funguy: *
This chucking is such bullcrap. If the batsmen are allowed to reverse sweep, play paddle shot, change their stance after the ball is delivered, come down the pitch, score even if they miss the ball (leg byes and byes), then why the hell can't bowlers bowl with a little bend in the arm??????????
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well bro we want FAIR game and cricket.not Baseball :D.if they extend this degree moreit would make the cricketa joke.bcz if u keep on increasing that thing.it would come to a bsaeball pitcher

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Murali cleared to bowl Doosra

Murali cleared to bowl "doosra"

November 10, 2004 16:09 IST

Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has been cleared to bowl his controversial "doosra" under a recommendation from an International Cricket Council (ICC) committee, The Independent reported on Wednesday.

The delivery, a leg spinner bowled from the front of the hand, was outlawed as illegal by the ICC last May after a report concluded Muralitharan bent his arm during delivery.

Independent cricket correspondent Angus Fraser, a former England pace bowler and a member of the ICC committee, said it had recommended that bowlers be allowed to straighten their arms by 15 degrees during delivery.

"It replaces the existing rule, only introduced in 2001, which varied the amount of straightening allowed depending on the type of bowling," Fraser said. "Spinners were restricted to five degrees."

Muralitharan, the second-highest wicket taker in Test cricket with 532 victims, has been called twice for throwing.

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Thats good news for Sri Lanka!

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I am not suprised as this who thing was about clearing Murali anyway

:hoonh:

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They are clearing Murli, Shaoib and Pindi express and Jet lett … :hoonh:

I must say yaar that a clear Invitation for many more to come and hopefully the Aussie umpire; D. Hair, Harper
will keep their biasness to themselves when
Srilanka(Murli), India(Harbajan), Pakistan (Shoaib both of 'em) tour the Kangroo land

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this for the better, murali was being made a scapegoat and this should also clear shoaib malik

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Makes no difference, people who don't like Murli, Shoaib still won't stop calling them chuckers even when ICC clears them. To them I say, God loves you. ;)

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So now that ICC find out that 99% of the bowlers from present days and from past actually throws, I think world (Specially AUS) should not single out Murli and accept that he is greater bowler than Warne.

2ndly this is quite a jerk for my Indian friends as they now cant use the term “chucker” for Shoaib Akhter when he uprouts 10Dulkar’s middle stump :slight_smile:

ICC study reveals that 99% throw](http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2004/NOV/099009_WCI_10NOV2004.html)

Extensive research conducted by the International Cricket Council is set to reveal that 99% of bowlers in the history of cricket have been throwers. The study was undertaken in the wake of the furore surrounding Muttiah Muralitharan, whose doosra was banned earlier this year after Chris Broad, the match referee for the Tests against Australia, reported it to the ICC.

“The scientific evidence is overwhelming,” said Michael Holding, the possessor of one of the smoothest bowling actions in history, and a member of the six-man panel of former Test players who have been gathered in Dubai to investigate the issue. “When bowlers who, to the naked eye, look to have pure actions are thoroughly analysed … they are likely to be shown as straightening their arm. Under a strict interpretation of the law, these players are breaking the rules. The game needs to deal with this reality and make its judgment as to how it accommodates this fact.”

According to Derek Pringle in the Daily Telegraph, Murali is no different from the vast majority of his fellow players. The current law states that there should be no straightening or partial straightening of the bowling arm during delivery, and in-depth research has revealed that even bowlers like Glenn McGrath and Shaun Pollock, usually considered examplars of the classical action, occasionally go over the prescribed tolerance limit, bending their arms by as much as 12 degrees.

The tolerance levels had been set at five degrees for spinners, seven-and-a-half for medium-pacers, and ten for quick bowlers, a situation that invited much criticism from past greats such as Ian Chappell. But the study, conducted by three prominent biomechanics experts, suggests that the human eye can only detect a kink in the action if the straightening is more than 15 degrees.

As Angus Fraser - another member of the six-man panel - wrote in The Independent, even the likes of Fred Trueman, Dennis Lillee, Curtly Ambrose, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, and Ian Botham were found to have exceeded the straightening-limit set by the ICC.

The biomechanics men - Dr Marc Portus, Professor Bruce Elliott and Dr Paul Hurrion - used cameras shooting at 250 frames per second (ten times the speed of a TV camera) to illustrate phenomena such as adduction and hyper-extension, which can convince an observer watching with the naked eye that the bowler is chucking.

Research was also undertaken during the ICC Champions Trophy in England, where it was found that 13 of the 23 bowlers filmed straightened their arms more than the current permissible levels. Ramnaresh Sarwan, he of the fairly innocuous legspin, was the only man observed who didn’t straighten his arm at all.

Based on these findings, the ICC is to extend the tolerance limit to 15 degrees for all bowlers, regardless of whether they bowl at Shane Warne’s pace or Shoaib Akhtar’s. Match officials will still be expected to note down suspicious actions, and pass on the information to the ICC. But unlike before, remedial action will now be the sole preserve of a new body to be set up to help bowlers with the rehabilitation process.

It will include former Test bowlers and biomechanics experts, and they will have the authority to fail a bowler. Those exceeding the tolerance limit will be on probation for two years, rather than the current one, but subsequent offences will result in a 12-month ban. It remains to be seen, however, if such a system will be introduced at first-class level.

The panel’s proposals will now be considered by the ICC Chief Executives’ Committee at its next meeting, currently scheduled for Melbourne, Australia, in February 2005. “The information and the recommendations provided by the Cricket Committee are valuable and important,” said Malcolm Speed, the ICC’s chief executive, “but this matter is still to be properly considered.”

“I would expect that there will be a full and healthy debate,” Speed added, “as the people who run cricket in each country consider the proposals put forward and determine whether this option provides a better solution than the system currently in place.”

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I will quote Micheal Holding here that "Scientific Evidence is too overwhelming" And the fact that to the naked eye it will still seem that few bowlers chuck cannot be denied.

People will still argue that it is done to please SL board specially and etc but I personally feel that it was the right thing to do considering the expert evidence and advice.

p.s Warne is/was still a better bowler than Murali IMO.

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now all these muralitharans will pop up...

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Re: ICC set to change chucking rules

I think its a mistake, they will have to rethink abt it.

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not a bad news..i want murali to hold the world record ....reason is i dont want shane warne claiming the most wickets

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I want warnie, he i sthe spinner man. Murali looks so weird, don't know what he does to throw the ball