Lawson's action to come under scrutiny
Wisden CricInfo staff - 11 May 2003
An astonishing week of success for Jermaine Lawson may be about to turn sour, after it was reported that the match referee, Mike Procter, had requested videotapes of his bowling action.
Lawson, 21, took a career-best 7 for 78 - the best figures in a Test in Antigua - as Australia were bowled out for 240 in their first innings on Friday. That effort followed swiftly on from his hat-trick in the closing stages of the third Test in Barbados, and he had been consistently recording bowling speeds in excess of 90mph.
But he was unable to take the field on the third day of the Test after suffering a back strain, and Procter will now be taking a closer look at his action, which like that of Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar, appears to involve a certain degree of hyper-extension.
? Wisden CricInfo Ltd