"Suspect action"

[Nate]

yes but all pace and nothing else is not good at all, quite the opposite in fact, no control and pace are a horrible mixture.

I most certainly agree! Sami anyone...

 

[sledger]

or harmison in some of his spells in south africa

 

[chaminda_00]

or harmison in some of his spells in south africa

Nantie Hayward has to be worst in recent times, all he had was pace and nothing else.

 

[SpeedKing]

Martin Bicknell is just a tad too slow. And when he had that series against SA, England were in this process of grooming the current attack. It was just that England had some serious problems with their bowling back then . No Hoggy, Flintoff was just a bang-in-bowler back then [with less pace than he has got now, wierdly enough]. I think he was hard done by in the 1995-1999 period where IIRC, he had only one game when he was clearly top form.

Deliteful action, got so close the stumps it's unbelievable [IIRC, he knocked dout the stumps at the bowlers end in his delivery stride in that SA series]. He had all these tricks up his sleeve . Swung the ball at will both ways but could only hit 77-79mph. I don't remember him going over 80. Still with all his trickery, he could have been somthing.

 

[SpeedKing]

Yeah in terms of weirdness, he has a simliar action to Tait and Edwards. I think he get his arm a little bit lower then both of them but.

Akhtar used to bowl round arm as well. I remember that yorker that bowled Fleming in the world cup [99, i think, not sure], he had a pretty round arm action. Thinking about it again, he actually used to have about 3 actions back then.

Anyway, on Malinga, it is very hard to chuck when bowling round arm coz the arm straightens just after it goes past your hip and only bends when it was rotated about 270 degrees. This is certainly the first case, i have seen someone thinking a round arm bowler chucks.

 

[username1234]

well i just thought he chucked because i have never seen any other international player bowler like that before. I have encounterd some sub continent bowlers who bowl like that in junior club cricket but i always thought they chucked lol. anyway i will leave him alone now.

 

[Josh]

Fidel Edwards of the West Indies does it as did (the great) Jeff Thomson

 

[Son Of Coco]

no i think thats about it, sounds very familiar now you mention it. that series saw the end of neil mckenzie as well now you mention it, not sure what happened to him either

McKenzie is a requirement in the Test and One-day teams - I'm missing his sister in the crowd during matches