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When cricket first became obsessed with suspect actions in the 1960s, umpires led the way in hounding out suspected bowlers. It was a proper hounding, too, a lynch mob fit for condemning criminals. It turned bowlers into pariahs, guilty of a great immoral act. That attitude remains. It retains more than just a whiff of moralising on suspect actions; in the smugness of Australia and England that their off-spinners do not bowl doosras, or feel the need to wear long sleeves; in Michael Vaughan and then Stuart Broad tweeting photos of Saeed Ajmal in action and, metaphorically, nodding and winking. That yanks into black-and-white territory what is an inherently grey technical matter.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 06:30:00 +0000

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