Odd action

[Tomm NCCC]

I think you must mean Kim Barnett who played for Derbyshire and England, had a strange looking stance
Peter Willey had a very front on stance at the crease when batting

Insert Derby Joke # 72

Micheal Yardy certainly has an odd stance.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Insert Derby Joke # 72

Micheal Yardy certainly has an odd stance.

Boycott described Yardy as "Some bloke who thinks he can bat, and bowls these little left arm pies", on commentary

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Tibbles has a funny action, especially considering she's so young.

 

[Richard]

James Kirtley has a <coughs> odd action; he has was could charitably be called a fluid elbow.

So did Brian Statham.

What's your point?

 

[Richard]

Tibbles has a funny action, especially considering she's so young.

*Fully expects disparaging comments from EXD*

 

[PhoenixFire]

So did Brian Statham.

What's your point?

Just because Statham was a great bowler doesn't mean he was very close to chucking it.

 

[FRAZ]

Think Peter Willey used to face the square leg umpire and Derek Randell had a strange stance to match his strange personality

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[PhoenixFire]

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[BoyBrumby]

So did Brian Statham.

What's your point?

That he has an odd action. What's yours?

 

[open365]

Mitchel Johnson. I cannot help but stare at the way he keeps his delivery arm completely still as he's running in and goes into his action.


I remember watching a West Indian bowler - I think a batsman who bowled part time - who would walk into the crease, sort of shuffle/skid his feet on the crease and bowl. That was when I was about 5, I think.

Yeh i noticed that about Johnson to, i kept thinking if frogs could bowl, they'd bowl like he does but then i got used to watching him.

His action even though it looks strange at first is acctualy brilliant.

 

[Richard]

That he has an odd action. What's yours?

That you were suggesting it was an illegal action, when IMO it's nothing OTS, it's just an unavoidable hyperextension due to an unchangeable double-joint.

Just like Brian Statham and a multitude of others (Shoaib Akhtar for instance).

 

[Richard]

Just because Statham was a great bowler doesn't mean he was very close to chucking it.

Greatness means nothing - Statham is just the best bowler of the many who've been double-jointed. So I picked him.

Double-jointed doesn't mean you chuck it. Hyper-extension cannot be helped. It's not a straightening, it's a un-straightening.

 

[BoyBrumby]

That you were suggesting it was an illegal action, when IMO it's nothing OTS, it's just an unavoidable hyperextension due to an unchangeable double-joint.

Just like Brian Statham and a multitude of others (Shoaib Akhtar for instance).

Fair enough, I mean it's not like Kirtley's ever been reported for chucking or anything, is it?

Oh, wait...

 

[Richard]

Who's to say Statham wouldn't have been had he lived in this ever-scrutinous age.

Murali's been reported for chucking, too - what's your point? Kirtley has been checked and time-and-again it's been found his arm is hyper-extending which he cannot help...

 

[BoyBrumby]

Who's to say Statham wouldn't have been had he lived in this ever-scrutinous age.

Murali's been reported for chucking, too - what's your point? Kirtley has been checked and time-and-again it's been found his arm is hyper-extending which he cannot help...

& it was found he chucked his doosra until he undertook remedial action on it. I personally think he still does throw that particular delivery in match conditions. I really don't wan to go down that route tho, no good can possibly come of it.

 

[Richard]

It was found such until the rules were changed when it was found they were based on false ideals.

 

[BoyBrumby]

It was found such until the rules were changed when it was found they were based on false ideals.

No, the flexion in his elbow for his doosra was over the fifteen degree tolerance that we have currently, so he chucked it according to the shiny new (and terrible, compromised & unenforceable) law.

 

[Richard]

Agree about the terribleness and unenforceableness of the new law but I'd never read about Murali's Wrong-'Un being more than 14deg...