DUBAI, April 2: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has declared that five players at the recently staged Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia had potentially flawed bowling actions.

Three of the five players were from Associate teams and two from Test-playing ICC Members.

The ICC, as per its rule, did not disclose the identity or nationality of the bowlers though the individual boards are permitted to do so.

The five players are not entitled for selection for any national squad until an assessment by their boards’ bowling advisers verifies either the action is legal or that, although it was illegal, it has been fixed.

A three-man Bowling Action Advisory Panel (BAAP) monitored bowlers' actions during the tournament.The members of the BAAP were Javagal Srinath, a match referee and former Indian fast bowler, Richard Done, the ICC’s high performance manager, and biomechanist Marc Portus, a member of the ICC’s panel of human movement specialists.—Agencies

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