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Title: Senanayake banned....
Post by: IWTUK on July 12, 2014, 02:55:16 PM
Apologies if this is redundant or has been posted elsewhere, but just read that Senanayake's action has been deemed illegal, and he has been banned from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect......


http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/story/759835.html (http://www.espncricinfo.com/srilanka/content/story/759835.html)

Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Giraffe208 on July 12, 2014, 04:41:59 PM
It is about time to be fair. At least now he should be able to correct his action and show some that it isn't the "race" issue they thought it were when posters drew comment.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: csnew on July 12, 2014, 08:23:16 PM
He got away with chucking for a very long time!
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Nickauger on July 12, 2014, 09:38:09 PM
Where are our Sri Lankan friends who said that the ICC were being racist? lol
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: mini998 on July 12, 2014, 10:54:11 PM
Where are our Sri Lankan friends who said that the ICC were being racist? lol

I'm Sri Lankan, I never said such things , It's silly to bring out race card(from both sides) for every time something bad happens . I said it looks bad to naked eye  and needs checking up. And sadly for us it seems the end of the road for him.

Cricket stuff aside , he is a very nice bloke who was very kind and humble with fans, feel for him.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: ogroupleader on July 13, 2014, 12:49:46 AM
Its about time something was done. Chucking is becoming an epidemic with young spinners here. Have played against 2 young spinners in the last couple of months who were blatant chuckers. The umpires are reluctant to call them because they see what the guys at international level are getting away with.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Manormanic on July 13, 2014, 09:16:22 AM
Cricket stuff aside , he is a very nice bloke who was very kind and humble with fans, feel for him.

on a personal level it can't be nice - equally, I'm not sure how he can have thought that he was not chucking it!
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: skip1973 on July 13, 2014, 09:29:48 AM
on a personal level it can't be nice - equally, I'm not sure how he can have thought that he was not chucking it!
Because that's how he was taught and was told it was fine because Murali had been allowed to get away with it.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Dhiraj on July 13, 2014, 11:41:45 AM
Wasn't it so that the lab in Australia cleared him before? If thats the case how is different at the lab in England.

Murali has proven his action over time now with several tests. Thats another topic for me.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: tim2000s on July 13, 2014, 11:55:18 AM

Wasn't it so that the lab in Australia cleared him before? If thats the case how is different at the lab in England.

Murali has proven his action over time now with several tests. Thats another topic for me.
He failed initially at the lab in Aus, had remedial action, was then cleared, and has now failed again. I guess he has reverted to his previous action.


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Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Dhiraj on July 13, 2014, 12:16:51 PM
on another note...why dont they ever get reported on sub continent?

Is it so that sub continent players are anyways very good against spin and dont care so much who that is?
It always gets reported in Australia or England?
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Giraffe208 on July 13, 2014, 12:20:10 PM
Stricter enforcement of laws?
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: MD2812 on July 13, 2014, 10:30:54 PM
I hope this gives umpires confidence to report a player if they think a bowlers action is worthy of testing.

Whether they have been previously cleared or not.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: farnham_quins_2 on July 14, 2014, 10:36:04 AM
When a bowler is banned for his action, should his wickets stand in the record books? Or should they be removed? If his bowling was deemed illegal, shouldn't those wickets not count?
Should batsmen who were out to him have not outs added to their score for those innings?
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: joeljonno on July 14, 2014, 12:00:34 PM
I guess it is only the same as nicking it and not walking. Should the runs following it count?

It wasn't called a no-ball at the time so it wasn't 'technically' illegal.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Dan W on July 14, 2014, 12:45:00 PM
Pah! I think they should let everyone chuck, with the stipulation something like the ball has to come from above the shoulder or vertically outstretched elbow. It would look a bit weird, but the straight arm thing simply means spinning is less effective and merely a sideshow to the fast game. The chucking thing is too tough to detect. The umpire won't have the balls to do it there and then, the trial by TV replay isn't accurate, and it must be easy enough to replicate a safe action under testing to get through the tests.

Would be great if it was a bigger part of the game, especially as most legal spinners are rubbish!
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: skip1973 on July 14, 2014, 12:50:45 PM
That's exactly the attitude that has seen society standards decline over the years.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: MD2812 on July 14, 2014, 12:59:25 PM
Pah! I think they should let everyone chuck, with the stipulation something like the ball has to come from above the shoulder or vertically outstretched elbow. It would look a bit weird, but the straight arm thing simply means spinning is less effective and merely a sideshow to the fast game. The chucking thing is too tough to detect. The umpire won't have the balls to do it there and then, the trial by TV replay isn't accurate, and it must be easy enough to replicate a safe action under testing to get through the tests.

Would be great if it was a bigger part of the game, especially as most legal spinners are rubbish!

I detect trolling. I certainly hope I do!! If not then cricket would have baseball pitchers within a week!

The solution to chucking lies in technology. ICC are testing a sleeve which is worn by the bowler and measures any bend or straightening of the arm in delivery.

In football goal line technology has to give a decision within .25 of a second. If this sleeve can do that for Umpires to a watch which vibrates on a no ball then that would be brilliant. Might also mean some slow bowlers wear shorter sleeve shirts on warm days!!
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: MD2812 on July 14, 2014, 01:01:59 PM
When a bowler is banned for his action, should his wickets stand in the record books? Or should they be removed? If his bowling was deemed illegal, shouldn't those wickets not count?
Should batsmen who were out to him have not outs added to their score for those innings?

No, his action is only illegal from the testing date or results announcement. There is no evidence which can catagorically prove those delivieries were ileagal.,
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: uknsaunders on July 14, 2014, 02:06:45 PM
You could go further with a sleeve and allow it to flex 15 degrees and then stiffen. Would be very interesting to see whether Ajmal and Co would be nearly as effective if they were forced to wear one.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: mini998 on July 14, 2014, 02:43:49 PM
You could go further with a sleeve and allow it to flex 15 degrees and then stiffen. Would be very interesting to see whether Ajmal and Co would be nearly as effective if they were forced to wear one.


Murali bowled with a brace made out of steel which offered no flex during testing , it was nearly a kilo and he was able to bowl both his off spinner and doosra without issues.  Micheal Slater (and some other players I think, not remember their names) batted against him to test the quality of the bowling.

Obviously people who wan't label him as a chucker tend to look away from these information rather conveniently.

http://mutated-unmuated.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/muttiah-muralitharan-best-cricketer-in.html (http://mutated-unmuated.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/muttiah-muralitharan-best-cricketer-in.html)
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: tim2000s on July 14, 2014, 03:01:48 PM
Murali bowled with a brace made out of steel which offered no flex during testing , it was nearly a kilo and he was able to bowl both his off spinner and doosra without issues.  Micheal Slater (and some other players I think, not remember their names) batted against him to test the quality of the bowling.

Obviously people who wan't label him as a chucker tend to look away from these information rather conveniently.

[url]http://mutated-unmuated.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/muttiah-muralitharan-best-cricketer-in.html[/url] ([url]http://mutated-unmuated.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/muttiah-muralitharan-best-cricketer-in.html[/url])

And everyone knows this. But we aren't talking about Murali, we are talking about a chucker called Senanayake, plus potentially others with similar actions. We also know that Murali could bowl leggies with a straight arm, so there is always going to be a question over how he did what he did.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: mini998 on July 14, 2014, 03:24:39 PM
And everyone knows this. But we aren't talking about Murali, we are talking about a chucker called Senanayake, plus potentially others with similar actions. We also know that Murali could bowl leggies with a straight arm, so there is always going to be a question over how he did what he did.


except he didn't, I know the video you have been posting all over this place , not sure if you missed it or conveniently tend to ignore below angle  in his leggie.

(http://s12.postimg.org/p5alefjul/murali.jpg)


and people bought in murali in this thread, hence my reply about him and his brace

Because that's how he was taught and was told it was fine because Murali had been allowed to get away with it.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Dhiraj on July 14, 2014, 04:02:40 PM
except he didn't, I know the video you have been posting all over this place , not sure if you missed it or conveniently tend to ignore below angle  in his leggie.

([url]http://s12.postimg.org/p5alefjul/murali.jpg[/url])


and people bought in murali in this thread, hence my reply about him and his brace

Murali has a deformity which makes that angle with the natural arm which is what was concluded after all the braces and the bio mechanic tests.

There is a lot of debate of legal action of bowling but lets go back few years when even a slight bend was treated as chucking till bowlers came through with unusual action.
This 15 or 14 degrees is for now till somebody turns up with another crooked arm and turns the ball square on any pitch.
There is far too much noise around legal action but it isnt still clear.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: mini998 on July 14, 2014, 04:46:57 PM
Murali has a deformity which makes that angle with the natural arm which is what was concluded after all the braces and the bio mechanic tests.

There is a lot of debate of legal action of bowling but lets go back few years when even a slight bend was treated as chucking till bowlers came through with unusual action.
This 15 or 14 degrees is for now till somebody turns up with another crooked arm and turns the ball square on any pitch.

There is far too much noise around legal action but it isnt still clear.

That's actually not true , only reason they introduced this 15 degrees is because they found out it is almost impossible for any bowler to bowl without flexing/straightening their arms during delivery action . So they had to come up with a number and after testing several players they came up with 15 degrees flex limit, so Murali's crooked arm was not the reason for 15 degrees , although all of these initiated because of his issue.
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: Manormanic on July 14, 2014, 10:31:37 PM
When a bowler is banned for his action, should his wickets stand in the record books? Or should they be removed? If his bowling was deemed illegal, shouldn't those wickets not count?
Should batsmen who were out to him have not outs added to their score for those innings?

should the Mankading be cancelled as it should have been  no ball anyway ?  :o
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: smokem on July 15, 2014, 04:28:54 AM
And everyone knows this. But we aren't talking about Murali, we are talking about a chucker called Senanayake, plus potentially others with similar actions. We also know that Murali could bowl leggies with a straight arm, so there is always going to be a question over how he did what he did.

Incorrect if you go by the fact that one of his leggies was also called for a no-ball. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen an umpire do...
Title: Re: Senanayake banned....
Post by: skip1973 on July 15, 2014, 05:06:21 AM
It's not how straight his arm is at release point, it's how far it straightened on the way. Murali cocks his arm with the ball near the point of his bowling shoulder. He chucks plain and simple. The recent row game showed he's given up on even trying to disguise it.