According to the ICC, Ninety-nine per cent of all test bowlers chuck! That means ninety-nine per cent of all test bowlers are as dodgy as Murali!
To quote Jeff Thompson; dick heads!
Sporadic hyperextension IS NOT the same as Murali's deliberate, methodical and flagrant atrocities.
Typically the ICC have proposed an accomodating solution. Murali chucks by 14 degrees -- out of the action and in a laboratory, mind you -- so whaddaya know, the ICC have set the limit at 15 degrees.
Really though, this "arbitrary" limit, accompanied as it is, by dubious off-field review panels is totally unsatisfactory. The only solution is for the ICC to set a level of zero degrees and put the call back in the hands of the umpires. Then if the umpires think a bowler throws, they call him, and the ICC has the guts to back their man. Simple as that.
All together now:
Posted by: Clem Snide | 12 November 2004 at 00:46
That was funny, Clem!
14 degrees my ass. Like you said Tony: out of the action and in a laboratory.
Some of his match deliveries are bordering on 90 degrees.
And now just to put my wanker hat on… but somehow I think (hope) you'd appreciate the clarification… It's not sporadic "hyperextension", it's just plain old "extension".
Extension of the forearm is what makes a no ball. Hyperextension means going past what is "normal". Not everyone can hyperextend their elbow joint. From memory, a little chunk of bone called the olecranon process is the reason.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 12 November 2004 at 01:04
'Are you really a thief?', said Mummy Bear to Baby Bear.
'No, no, mummy, I'm a good boy', said Baby Bear. 'If you don't believe me, why don't you put me to the test?'
So Mummy Bear watched Baby bear for an hour. And you know what? He didn't steal a thing. Not a sausage. Baby Bear's name was cleared. Hooray!
All those horrible accusations made by nasty old bear-baiters were wrong. They must be the real thieves.
P.S. There must be a way of computer tracking Murali's action from TV footage. That would be interesting.
Posted by: Scott Campbell at Blithering Bunny | 12 November 2004 at 04:32
Surely this has come from the massive influence the sub-continent and their gambling syndicates have over the ICC.
If we don't agree with their decision well then we musty clearly be racist.
Posted by: House Husband | 12 November 2004 at 09:23
It's just a total cop out. Whatever happened to "The Umpire is always right".
Hey! If anything, Daryl Hair can now say; "I was right all along."
Posted by: Tony.T | 12 November 2004 at 19:11
The ICC are a pack of gutless weasels who will do or say anything to avoid upsetting the cash cow from the sub-continent.
Just throw the bloody Laws of Cricket out the window and blacken the reputation of generations of fair bowlers to appease a chucker and his country's board.
I think I'll just wander off and puke somewhere.
Posted by: PQ | 13 November 2004 at 05:00
From what I've read in the papers today, it looks like the ICC are running scared from lawyers.
Posted by: Tony.T | 13 November 2004 at 10:40