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Old 19-02-2013, 03:48 PM   #288 (permalink)
Neil Pickup
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Originally Posted by kykweer.proteas View Post
Ok... So we won... Quite comfortably... Deteriorating wicket... And as I have been saying all along. Ajmal's doosra is an illegitimate throw. Doesn't not seem in bounds with the 15 degree rule, not that it might be 16 degrees but because he bends his arm likely close to 30 degrees. These are the facts deal with it.
It's posts like these that really don't help reasoned debate on the issue.

Bending the arm is not throwing; straightening is.
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