MELBOURNE Chucking has surfaced in the Womens World Cup cricket, with authorities failing to adequately deal with the bowlers who throw, PPI reported.

In what has become a spectacular case of technology contradicting itself, England fast bowler Jenny Gunn has been cleared of throwing by International Cricket Council (ICC) a fortnight after she was banned from Australian domestic cricket while playing for Western Australia (WA).

Gunn, 22, and a veteran of 65 one-day internationals, is in the bizarre situation of being able to bowl her country to victory in the games most prestigious competition but not being allowed to bowl in Australian domestic cricket, The Australian reports.

Always widely regarded as having a suspect action, Gunn was reported by match umpires Nov 30 last year while playing for WA against South Australia.

Gunn made herself available for an analysis of her bowling action at Australian Institute of Sport biomechanics laboratory in Canberra two months later.

Remarkably, none of Gunns deliveries complied with maximum allowable elbow extension of 15 degrees. She appealed findings and appeal was postponed until after the World Cup.

In meantime, she was reported for a suspected illegal bowling action by on-field umpires during opening day of World Cup against Sri Lanka in Canberra March 7.

Amid 13 pages of legalese and biomechanical jargon covering suspected illegal bowling actions in ICCs handbook, part C7 clearly states 'No member of bowling review group shall be from the country of player who is subject of the hearing.'

Apparently that applies only to male internationals. For women the report is simply shipped off to the home board to deal with. So ICC sent report to England & Wales Cricket Board, which sent it to its national academy at Loughborough.

A report came back suggesting that Gunns chucking is an optical illusion, same scientific reason given for unusual action of the worlds leading wicket taker Muttiah Muralitharan.

Neither ICC nor Cricket Australia (CA) have been able to explain why CA testing in Australia two months ago found Gunn to be a blatant chucker. But as this latest debacle has shown, the system is far more flawed than any bowling action.