Saeed Ajmal rates 7 for 55 as career best bowling – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859, the Pakistani off-spinner, cited his bowling figures of 7 for 55 as his best against the English; however, he left it upto the match officials to judge his bowling action.
Despite outfoxing his opponents, the clash between the two heavy weights of cricket was stained with yet another controversy after Ajmal was questioned over the legality of his arm, which was believed to be exceeding the legality margin of 15 degrees imposed
by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625.
In a fascinating contest between the English batters and Ajmal, the latter triumphed with emphatically to dismantle the tourists by picking seven scalps.
He however, had to answer the unavoidable question of his unorthodox spin action, which came under the spot light on the opening day of 1st Test after the Poms contingent failed to detect his mystery balls.
The 34-year-old remained defiant in his stance, claiming it was up to the match officials to judge his action, while he will only concentrate on performing well for his country.
“I'm just going to concentrate on my bowling," he said. "Umpires and referees are responsible for judging my action. Such questions were raised with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 offspinner], too, but we both played county cricket and there were no
problems.”
The Men In Green spinner was at his best despite the surface offering plenty of assistance to the batsmen. It lead to English skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AJ-Strauss-c964 opting to bat first but the events after that were humiliating for the no.1 ranked team.
It was lack of technique rather than the much touted mystery ball which came to the demise of the tourists, who were simply poor in their shot selections. It ultimately led to the hosts taking a firm footing on the proceedings after ending the day on 42
for no loss in reply to 192.
Ajmal was keen to avoid a war of words by simply savouring his best performance.
"This was the best performance of my life. I just bowled wicket to wicket and, while I had a good day, England had a bad one. They are all good players and it would be wrong to say that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 doesn't play spin well,” said Ajmal.
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