This guy seems pretty mad that Pakistan beat the WI partially thanks to Shabbirs chucking action. This raises an interesting question. We all see half naked images of cricketers with cotton balls stuck on them on TV and apparently this is some sort of a “chucking” action test. Does anyone really know what this test measures? Does it have anything to do with biometrics?
It is clear that as long as a certain unnamed Sri Lankan spinner is allowed to ball, there is no reason to accuse anyone else of chucking. Also, what guarantee is there that a bowler would use the same chucking action under these “tests” conduction in Australia? Apparently Shoaib Malik is the only honest person in the world seeing how his action was apparently a THIRTY DEGREE chuck! ICC has revised their chucking rule stating that 15 degrees is not acceptable. I guess this was to be expected considering research showed that under the rules 99% of bowlers in cricket history had illegal action
What would be the best way to take away this controversy? we clearly need technology to step in during the matches to tell us when a bowler is chucking, or at least record enough data during the matches to be able to judge after the matches if a ball was a chuck or not. Something in the order of what the MLB does to judge if a pitch was a ball or not! (sorry can’t find link to what they actually do)
Use a positioning systemEmbed a chip inside the ball and use a reliable positioning system. This is what the NHL was doing to track the hockey puck. I think it was Time Warner’s idea and they were showing trace lines on television so that the puck would be easier to follow at high moving speeds. It was a very cool idea but fans hated it and it got scrapped.
If they used similar technology they could determine the path of the ball and infer if the arm followed a circular motion or not. They might even be able to determine the spin if the chip has a sense of orientation.
Would take away from all the controversy out of cricket which is part of the excitement.
RE: Use a positioning systemGood call,
Other than that, I’m sure they can introduce and make compulsory elbow guards with sensors if they really wanted to and get a better idea of what the angle of the elbow really was, it should not be a hindrance I think…
At least make it compulsory as a punishment to controversial bowlers!
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