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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Wellred on May 31, 2014, 03:32:00 pm

Title: T20 and England
Post by: Wellred on May 31, 2014, 03:32:00 pm: Can our resident Cricket expert please explain to me why Malinga can get away with chucking every time he bowls?
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: Filo on May 31, 2014, 03:36:26 pm: I always say that's not bowling, but some one has obviously deemed it legal

By the way, it not T20 today, it's ODI ;)
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: timdrfc on May 31, 2014, 05:05:44 pm: Seems afew Sri Lankans chuck it too me, then there's Murlitharan, changed the rules to keep him in the game
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: Wellred on May 31, 2014, 05:31:39 pm: Don't know why he bothers running up to the wicket. He might as well just stand there and throw it.
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Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on May 31, 2014, 05:33:10 pm: One of the Aussies chucks it as well although less obvious. Wouldn't be allowed a few years ago.
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: Wellred on May 31, 2014, 05:35:07 pm: It's that blatant it's laughable.
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: GM-MarkB on May 31, 2014, 07:48:07 pm: Matt Prior might be struggling to get his Test place back after Buttler's knock.....outstanding
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: GazLaz on May 31, 2014, 08:14:08 pm: His arm is straight, it's not a throw.
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: roversontheup on May 31, 2014, 08:24:08 pm: it's not a throw as his arm is straight. It's the angle that makes it look like a throw. Must be hard to deal with until you get used to it.
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: Wellred on May 31, 2014, 08:46:50 pm: There is no way his arm is straight.
At the point of release it might be straight but there is no other way to throw/bowl a ball.
Have you you ever tried throwing anything with a bent arm? It is impossible.
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: GM-MarkB on May 31, 2014, 10:02:41 pm: He's allowed 15 degrees
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: Lytham Rover on May 31, 2014, 10:48:41 pm: Malinga is a player who would have been coached to bowl "normally" if he had been brought up in england
As it is he bowled instinctively and apparently coached 'liberally'
And he is a throw back to when all bowlers bowled round arm
I believe he bowls fair the problem is that when he bowls it comes at such a low trajectory and with amazing control that he can be virtually unplayable
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: mrfrostsdad on June 02, 2014, 10:06:11 pm: His arm is straight.
As is Mitchell Johnson's, who is the Aussie you're thinking about.
Murali was different. Apparently he had a deformed wrist which was why he bowled with the action he did.

What did all 3 have in common?? The English batsmen didn't have a ferkin clue when they faced them
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: since-1969 on June 02, 2014, 10:58:25 pm: Uh? :chair:football forum !
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: DonnyBazR0ver on June 02, 2014, 11:54:47 pm: I'm not convinced

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnju_lP88Uc

When I was coached, if there was a kink in the arm and it wasn't a smooth action, a bowl became a sling.

Times have moved on although there has been some wierd and wonderful actions in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FvKEs-aSd0
Title: Re: T20 and England
Post by: Milepostuk on June 04, 2014, 01:39:01 pm: At school we used to get slated by our games teacher if our arm didn't go over our shoulders!