LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has formed a four-member committee to help out Mohammad Hafeez correct his bowling action, after the former national team skipper was suspended for the third time by the ICC.

International umpire Ahsan Raza along with ex-Test paceman Saleem Jaffer, former international Sajjad Akbar and Ali Zia are in the committee.

“On the recommendations of the four-member committee, Hafeez will work on his action at the National Cricket Academy, and after every 10 days he will undergo a test at the biomechanics lab setup in LUMS. The committee will, therefore, analyze the reports of the tests, and will further guide Mohammad Hafeez before he proceeds with the official test to ICC,” a PCB press release said on Tuesday.

Hafeez has been called for the third time when his bowling action test, held at Loughborourgh University in England on Nov 1, proved incorrect.

The ICC on the basis of that report has imposed immediate ban on Hafeez’s bowling but allowing him to bowl at the Pakistan’s domestic season with the consent of the PCB.

The PCB vowed it would help Hafeez by all ways in his efforts to rectify his bowling action.

Hafeez has already remodeled his bowling action when he was called for the second time in 2015, but still the ICC is not satisfied with his bowling action.

Cricket circles believe it is now very hard for Hafeez to rectify his bowling action in this age.

Meanwhile, PCB Director Cricket Haroon Rasheed expressed the hope that Hafeez would soon rectify his bowling action as the difference in the level of degree of his arm bend was not far away from the legal one of 15 degree.

Published in Dawn, November 22nd, 2017