The ICC allowed to throw it upto 15 degrees. If you throw it 13 degrees then you throw it, simple to me. I don't believe anybody can bowl the doosra properly on a length at a decent pace without bending and straightening the arm, which is throwing. Now the ICC, for whatever reason - and whether it helped Murali and Sri Lanka nobody can prove that - allow everybody, every bowler to bend and straighten the arm 15 degrees. They don't make the laws of cricket, that's made by MCC. But they can adapt the laws to make their own rules for international cricket and that's what they do. And they made this rule for international cricket. That's not a lot of cricket, that's not the law for club cricketers and anything else. ICC have gone down the road with the use of technology, the guy in Perth at his headquarters where they have everything, and they say they proved that most bowlers throughout history bent and straightened their arms. Well, I'm not sure I believe that. Maybe they say it to try and prove their own advice to ICC that everybody should be allowed a certain amount of bend and straightening their arm. I find it impossible to believe that throughout history many people have bent and straightened their arms. I've seen some fantastic actions. I think it's besmirching some of the players of the past. Maybe these boffins with the technology are trying to convince us all that they've got a job for life. They want to convince us that they are always going to send players and test their actions, so they are always going to be in business.
cricket has some strange tales i tell ya...
