In what will certainly go down as one of the darkest and most desolate hours in the annals of Pakistani cricketing history; news is just breaking out about the International Cricket Council suspending one of the best off spinners playing the game currently; Saeed Ajmal for a suspect bowling action........
One may do well to recall the fact that constant murmurs and asides have always abounded in cricketing circles as regards Ajmal's bowling action especially when he delivers his highly dreaded "doosra" that has put many a leading opposition batsman to shame times without end.........
Ajmal who was reported for a suspect bowling action by the two on field umpires as well as the match referee during the course of the recently concluded bilateral series between the Asian cricketing giants Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Sri Lankan soil was directed to undergo a series of tests at Australia's famed bio-mechanical facility that is aid to boast of the best facilities there are in this field..........
Experts at the bio-mechanical centre or facility who put Ajmal to many an excruciating test and even went to the extent of minutely scrutinising his action from various camera angles as well as varying degrees of slow motion concluded that Ajmal was bending his arm well beyond the currently permissible 15 degree limit while delivering a significant majority of his deliveries and thereby delivered a report to the ICC about the same based on their conclusions.........
While many a cricket fan as well as the Pakistani media is crying itself hoarse alleging an Indian/Australian and English backed conspiracy to stop the upward march of Pakistan through the world cricket rankings; the fact of the matter is that Ajmal's absence from the so called home series in Dubai and Sharjah against superior ranked teams will certainly put more than a spoke or two in an already beleaguered Pakistani bowling line up that has struggled to dismiss opposing batsmen with any kind of regularity of late.........
What is even more damaging for Pakistani cricket is the prospect of Ajmal entirely missing the World Cup slated to be held in Australia/New Zealand during February/Mrach 2015 and thereby reducing Pakistan's much diminished chances of doing well in this premier tournament even further.........
Will the ICC stick to it's guns or then recant on the same citing some inanity about the furtherance of the game and the already dead and buried "spirit of cricket"????well your guess on this one is as good or bad as mine..........
One may do well to recall the fact that constant murmurs and asides have always abounded in cricketing circles as regards Ajmal's bowling action especially when he delivers his highly dreaded "doosra" that has put many a leading opposition batsman to shame times without end.........
Ajmal who was reported for a suspect bowling action by the two on field umpires as well as the match referee during the course of the recently concluded bilateral series between the Asian cricketing giants Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Sri Lankan soil was directed to undergo a series of tests at Australia's famed bio-mechanical facility that is aid to boast of the best facilities there are in this field..........
Experts at the bio-mechanical centre or facility who put Ajmal to many an excruciating test and even went to the extent of minutely scrutinising his action from various camera angles as well as varying degrees of slow motion concluded that Ajmal was bending his arm well beyond the currently permissible 15 degree limit while delivering a significant majority of his deliveries and thereby delivered a report to the ICC about the same based on their conclusions.........
While many a cricket fan as well as the Pakistani media is crying itself hoarse alleging an Indian/Australian and English backed conspiracy to stop the upward march of Pakistan through the world cricket rankings; the fact of the matter is that Ajmal's absence from the so called home series in Dubai and Sharjah against superior ranked teams will certainly put more than a spoke or two in an already beleaguered Pakistani bowling line up that has struggled to dismiss opposing batsmen with any kind of regularity of late.........
What is even more damaging for Pakistani cricket is the prospect of Ajmal entirely missing the World Cup slated to be held in Australia/New Zealand during February/Mrach 2015 and thereby reducing Pakistan's much diminished chances of doing well in this premier tournament even further.........
Will the ICC stick to it's guns or then recant on the same citing some inanity about the furtherance of the game and the already dead and buried "spirit of cricket"????well your guess on this one is as good or bad as mine..........
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