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| July 3, 2005 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 25, 1426 |
Malik and Shabbir will be cleared: Elliott
LAHORE, July 2: Professor Bruce C. Elliott, biomechanist of University of Western Australia believes that medium-pacer Shabbir Ahmed will be cleared of the charge of suspect bowling action.
Talking to reporters after the inauguration of the PCB Level-II coaching course at the National Cricket Academy on Saturday Prof Elliott remarked “we sent Shabbir to England for test after he was called during the last West Indies’s tour of Pakistan and to my knowledge Shabbir has 10 degree bent and we are quite satisfied the bowler will not face further problem due to bowling action.”
Similarly, he said that off-spinner Shoaib Malik was also being cleared and according to a report of a South African expert he had less than 15 degree bent, which the ICC allows.
He said that the umpires should not declare the action of any bowler as suspect on the basis of one or two deliveries. He said “the umpires should watch the bowler throughout the day before arriving at any decision to report him for suspect action.”
He said that coaches of the national team should vigilantly observe their bowlers’ action to avoid any problem during matches and added the PCB was more conscious in this regard and making good efforts to check the bowler before including him in the national team. Commenting on the PCB’s decision of setting up a biomechanic laboratory, he said it was a good idea but an expensive one and the PCB should study the project properly.
“It is an expensive project and might cause losses if only cricketers are tested in the laboratory.
To save it from financial losses the maximum use of the laboratory must be made. For this purpose football, hockey and players of other games must have access to the laboratory as is the practice of the University of Western Australia,” he said.
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