Marlon Samuels - A new name to throw in.

[Lillian Thomson]

Hardly a high profile bowler but none the less.

Marlon the thrower

 

[sledger]

boo, what would prospective CC posters think? get this crap off the front page.

 

[skipper]

He will be sent to the Biomechanics lab, *(don't know what happens there in reality)*, will come out of the lab with a certificate to bowl - Officially cleared!

 

[roseboy64]

boo, what would prospective CC posters think? get this crap off the front page.

Thought you meant the main site.

 

[Perm]

Fairly sure there was a fair bit of discussion regarding this during the Test series, and most of us came to the conclusion that Samuels definitely looks like he chucks his faster ball. I was reading the other day that if this is proven by the biomechanists that he will be banned from bowling that delivery. Are the umpires supposed to enforce that ban on the field of play? What will his punishment be if he bowls it, regardless of what the umpires or biomechanists say?

 

[Ben Stinga]

I think some people worry too much about a flex of the elbow here or there.

When I see a guy stand at the crease and pitch baseball style, then I'll start to worry.

Until then....small potatoes!

 

[pup11]

His action always seemed to be a bit circumspect to me, especially his quickish delivery, its just a surprise it took the umpires so long to report his action.

 

[Manee]

Fairly sure there was a fair bit of discussion regarding this during the Test series, and most of us came to the conclusion that Samuels definitely looks like he chucks his faster ball. I was reading the other day that if this is proven by the biomechanists that he will be banned from bowling that delivery. Are the umpires supposed to enforce that ban on the field of play? What will his punishment be if he bowls it, regardless of what the umpires or biomechanists say?

The punishment will probably be a no ball.

 

[Jamee999]

It's not as big of a deal for Samuels, he's only a part-time bowler.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

I don't know, his ODI bowling has been a real asset alongside Gayle recently, allowing West Indies to play without a frontline spinner.

 

[TT Boy]

Has now been suspended...

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/current/story/339735.html

 

[Richard]

One might possibly say "not before time". Ridiculous that a problem which has appeared to be there (and certainly hasn't got any worse) has taken this long to attend to.

 

[andyc]

A video of his action, for those like me that hadn't seen it.

 

[honestbharani]

always looked dodgy... Like Richard said, a shame that it took so long to be reported.

 

[Burgey]

Didn't he get 1/90 last outing in a test?

His opponents probably want him to bowl.

 

[Richard]

In Tests his bowling hasn't often offered that much threat (not, obviously, that this should impact in any way upon whether or not he should be allowed to bowl) but in ODIs there have been far less effective bowlers going around. Especially those who are principally front-line batsmen.

 

[Manee]

To be honest, I think that as a rule of thumb, anyone who can consistently bowl quicker balls at over 110kph should have their action informally looked at by the ICC.

 

[Richard]

Well TBH I've only ever seen Samuels and Afridi who can, and more than once I've seen Afridi's action questioned. Never noticed anything much myself - I've never looked too closely, but then again, the latter is a result of the former.