Saeed Ajmal criticised again for his bowling action - Cricket News Update
The controversy over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859’s bowling action re-emerged after a former Sri Lankan player raised serious doubts about the off-spinner in his column written for The Nation.
The former Lankan cricketer said, “Ajmal is getting away with blue murder and nobody's taking any action."
Pakistan spinner is no stranger to such allegations over his bowling action ever since he made his debut for the Men In Green. The 34-year-old was first reported in 2009 by umpire http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brent-Fraser-Bowden-c48388 for a suspected action, but he was later tested at the University
of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Western-Australia-c865 and was subsequently cleared by their bio-mechanic experts.
Last November, during their series against Sri Lanka in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 lost the series 1-0 as the 34-year-old was the leading wicket-taker in the series with 18 scalps.
It is reported that during the first Test at Galle, Sri Lanka management had expressed their concern to the International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Clarence-Boon-c52728 over the validity of Ajmal’s bowling action. Ajmal took seven wickets including a five-for
in the Test, which his side lost by 209 runs.
"Ajmal has never been known to bowl in short sleeves either at practice or in a match, which has raised doubts whether he is actually bending his arm. He wears short sleeves only when he is batting," he further added.
Former English fast bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robert-George-Dylan-Willis-c85805 had expressed similar views in January when Ajmal routed the English batting with his unplayable doosra. “Now why do all these bowlers bowl with their sleeves buttoned round their wrist?” he said.
Ajmal’s successful run with the ball continued as he was again the leading bowler when he collected 24 wickets during the successful Test series between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, with the hosts handing the visitors a whitewash in the process.
In his a column in The Nation, Sa’adi Thawfeeq wrote that Ajmal is not following the bowling limits as laid down by the governing body and is exceeding the 15 degree limit to bowl a legitimate delivery.
"It is not that all the balls bowled by Ajmal are questionable but a couple of them in an over, especially the top spinner, which Sri Lanka believes goes beyond the permitted 15 degree angle," the article wrote.
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