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West Indies Cricket News: ICC suspends Shillingford for illegal bowling action | ESPN Cricinfo
This is a sad case for the Windies bowler, but i think his suspension has larger ramifications in the wider context of off-spin bowling in international cricket under the guidance of the incompetent ICC, who seem to be setting a horrific double standard between asia & non-asian bowlers who bowl the "doosra".
Years ago i recall former Indian spin legend Bishen Bedi during his attacks on Murali, always would say the "doosra" is a delivery that cannont be bowled legitimately & i personally always agreed with the position.
The only clean off-spinners in the world are Swann, Lyon, Tredwell - because they are conventional. When Ajmal, Hafeez, Ashwin, Narine, Sohag Gazi, Harbhajan, Shillingford, Sesanayke bowl they doosra they chuck to be brutally frank.
But in this batsmen friendly age, the doosra gave off-spinners a new wicket taking weapon & i and i presume many just accepted it. However if the ICC is going to say now the Shillingford general action when bowling is conventional off-break, when it could be argued some other off-spinners (Ajmal, Haffez, Gazi) have action that look far worse than Shillingford to the naked eye - is utterly ridiculous.
IMO the Doosra inventor - Saqlain Mushtaq was the only one who managed to bowl doosra while looking like he wasn't throwing ha.
This 15-degree tolerance thing, to me has always been a smoke screen created to protect Murali after that episode in the 1998 tri-series in Australia.
I recall former Pakistan opener Rameez Raja saying on interview on a programme is saw on skysports that he was at the ICC meeting in 1998 when Murali's action was being questioned. And he recalled that the "Asian block" countries all came together as if the "rest of world" was trying to attack Asia - when some in Asia thought like ROW countries that legitimate questions were being asked about Murali's action.
So they Murali case never was properly scrutinized & then they created this 15-degree tolerance testing to bring legitimacy to his action & the cricket world has just accept the fraud for years.
But fact is many Non-asian countries don't support their young bowlers bowling such a delivery:
- England Cricket News: Testing methods hold back England | ESPN Cricinfo
- Australia Cricket News: Integrity at stake over doosra - John Inverarity | ESPN Cricinfo
Ian Chappell also even when tasked with picking the the all-time world XI on cricinfo a couple years back, said plainly one of the main reasons why he picked Warne over Murali - was because question marks over his action remain - Comments : Ian Chappell on ESPNcricinfo's World XI: Bowlers | 'A complete pace attack' | Cricket videos, MP3, podcasts, cricket audio | ESPN Cricinfo
The ICC either needs to legitimize the doosra or ban it totally cause is ludicrous that Shilly is being banned, while some obvious other doosra bowling bowlers are still going to be playing.
Windies board should launch a immediately protest that all such bowlers be scrutinized, since its a crying shame that Shillingford who was the best performing WI spinners since the great Lance Gibbs career will basically end in such a grotesque manner. He is not going to come back after a 3rd testing.
This is a sad case for the Windies bowler, but i think his suspension has larger ramifications in the wider context of off-spin bowling in international cricket under the guidance of the incompetent ICC, who seem to be setting a horrific double standard between asia & non-asian bowlers who bowl the "doosra".
Years ago i recall former Indian spin legend Bishen Bedi during his attacks on Murali, always would say the "doosra" is a delivery that cannont be bowled legitimately & i personally always agreed with the position.
The only clean off-spinners in the world are Swann, Lyon, Tredwell - because they are conventional. When Ajmal, Hafeez, Ashwin, Narine, Sohag Gazi, Harbhajan, Shillingford, Sesanayke bowl they doosra they chuck to be brutally frank.
But in this batsmen friendly age, the doosra gave off-spinners a new wicket taking weapon & i and i presume many just accepted it. However if the ICC is going to say now the Shillingford general action when bowling is conventional off-break, when it could be argued some other off-spinners (Ajmal, Haffez, Gazi) have action that look far worse than Shillingford to the naked eye - is utterly ridiculous.
IMO the Doosra inventor - Saqlain Mushtaq was the only one who managed to bowl doosra while looking like he wasn't throwing ha.
This 15-degree tolerance thing, to me has always been a smoke screen created to protect Murali after that episode in the 1998 tri-series in Australia.
I recall former Pakistan opener Rameez Raja saying on interview on a programme is saw on skysports that he was at the ICC meeting in 1998 when Murali's action was being questioned. And he recalled that the "Asian block" countries all came together as if the "rest of world" was trying to attack Asia - when some in Asia thought like ROW countries that legitimate questions were being asked about Murali's action.
So they Murali case never was properly scrutinized & then they created this 15-degree tolerance testing to bring legitimacy to his action & the cricket world has just accept the fraud for years.
But fact is many Non-asian countries don't support their young bowlers bowling such a delivery:
- England Cricket News: Testing methods hold back England | ESPN Cricinfo
- Australia Cricket News: Integrity at stake over doosra - John Inverarity | ESPN Cricinfo
Ian Chappell also even when tasked with picking the the all-time world XI on cricinfo a couple years back, said plainly one of the main reasons why he picked Warne over Murali - was because question marks over his action remain - Comments : Ian Chappell on ESPNcricinfo's World XI: Bowlers | 'A complete pace attack' | Cricket videos, MP3, podcasts, cricket audio | ESPN Cricinfo
The ICC either needs to legitimize the doosra or ban it totally cause is ludicrous that Shilly is being banned, while some obvious other doosra bowling bowlers are still going to be playing.
Windies board should launch a immediately protest that all such bowlers be scrutinized, since its a crying shame that Shillingford who was the best performing WI spinners since the great Lance Gibbs career will basically end in such a grotesque manner. He is not going to come back after a 3rd testing.
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