kay well I think there is something to be cleared up here about the chucking law:
Law 24.3:3. Definition of fair delivery – the arm
A ball is fairly delivered in respect of the arm if, once the bowler’s arm has reached the level of the shoulder in the delivery swing, the elbow joint is not straightened partially or completely from that point until the ball has left the hand. This definition shall not debar a bowler from flexing or rotating the wrist in the delivery swing.
Under the strictest definition of the law, almost every bowler chucks because of two reasons:
1) At that pace it's almost impossible NOT to hyper-extend yor arm past the joint at the elbow.
2) The law wasn't written to cover instances like that, only where the elbow was bent the natural way to stop people from pinging the ball down with a bent arm.
So the law needs to be changed to reflect that now we can see that a bowler who may have been accused of chucking may have merely been hyper-extending their arm in relation to their elbow. Sure people who hyper-extend may get an advantage over those who's arms extend less but that's not their problem. The throwing law was designed to stop people from deliberately throwing the ball and these instances are entirely involuntary which means, in my opinion, these bowlers cannot be governed under the law as it stands.
So it needs to change.
I don't think Brett Lee is a chucker, Akhtr has to be. Brett Lee is by far the better of the two.
Brett may be a better bowler but his hyper-extension is just less than Shoaib's. There's nothing that either of them can do, short of bowling with splints on their arms.
Why does he have to be a chucker just because he can bowl at 161kph?
Shoaib, Brett Lee, Murali, James Kirtley etc. have all had their actions cleared, and as such, we should stop whinging and start trying to adapt and play them!
Exactly. However, that does not mean that a bowler is permanently cleared because bad habits can slip into a bowler's game. This means they need to be checked on a regular basis, in my view.