Bowlers’ throwing controversy continues

Like Dominica, Windward Islands and West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford, T&T’s off-spinning “doosra” bowler, Sunil Narine, has had his bowling action, his future international bowling career even, nullified by tested results.

When Shillingford had his bowling action problems, twice, I opined then that he was not at fault, since everyone around him, those who should have better guided him, from coaches in Windward Islands to those he operated under for West Indies, had only been telling “Shilli” that he was doing nothing incorrectly in delivery.

In Narine’s case, that assertion is tripled. His club coach in T&T, his coaches when he played for T&T and relatively few times when he played for WI, even personnel at his home cricket board, have generally been telling him the same thing too for years: “Boy Sunil, there is nothing wrong with your action at all. It is all just jealousy because of your big successes. There is a big conspiracy against you!”

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