royGilchrist said:
I dont know about medical proofs, all I know is when you see Shoaib bowling he clearly chucks on a few deliveries, and so does murali. Getting science and physical deformities into it just blurs things. I think it should be simple, give the power to the umpires. Yeah I know thats not the perfect solution but better than this scientific proof.
Getting scientific proofs is just making excuses as far as I am concerned.
Yes, it's an excuse - a damn valid one! If science can't make a definitive decision, it's hardly likely anything else can!
If you ask me, decisions like these should be made making use of all the technology and resources you can, not on an Umpire's whim. The human eye is such a fallible instrument.
Are you really saying you think Shoaib's arm is bent
forwards (ie with an angle of less than 180 degrees)? Because everyone who's ever studied the matter scientifically has come-up with the conclusion that this isn't the case. It only ever bends to an angle
greater than 180 degrees, and there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about that.
Murali, meanwhile, can't bend his arm to a 180 degree angle. That's a simple fact. You don't really need advanced medical proof to work this out. If someone believes (and a great many ignorant Australians do seem to) that this means his action cannot be legal, it is discrimination against the physically disabled.
Murali does not
straighten his arm from the shoulder point onwards and hence, by the laws, his action is legal. So is Shoaib's, and James Kirtley's.
