CRICKET 'How Did ICC Experts Reach This Conclusion?': Saqlain Wants 15-Degree Elbow Rule To Be Reviewed

CRICKET 'How Did ICC Experts Reach This Conclusion?': Saqlain Wants 15-Degree Elbow Rule To Be Reviewed

CRICKET: Saqlain, who is presently head coach at the Pakistan Cricket Board’s High-Performance Centre in Lahore, said the 15-degree elbow rule of ICC is discouraging youngsters from taking over the art of off-spin bowling.

Former Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq wants the International Cricket Council (ICC) to review its existing 15-degree arm/elbow extension law for bowlers.

Saqlain, who is presently head coach at the Pakistan Cricket Board’s High-Performance Centre in Lahore, said the law is discouraging youngsters from taking over the art of off-spin bowling.

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"I would really like to understand how the ICC experts reached this conclusion of allowing only 15-degrees latitude to bowlers. Did they are doing research on Asian players, Caribbean players, others because most are different?

"Asian players' bodies are different, they have a tendency to possess more flexibility in their arms and a few have hypermobile joints. If you check out Caribbean or English players their bodies are different," Saqlain said in an interview.

He noted that even carry angle, meaning flexibility in arms while in standing posture, is different in Asian players.

"I think the ICC should review this law because the 15-degrees latitude is just too little. it's discouraging players from the art of off-spin bowling.”

"I personally believe that one can bowl off-breaks, doosra, and topspin even within the law but since it came out I even have seen players who want to bowl off-spin now becoming leg-spinners or wrist spinners,” he said.

Saqlain, who ended an illustrious career with 208 Test and 288 ODI wickets and made the Doosra ball famous, believed that an off-spinner also can achieve success in white-ball formats if he features a good set of skills and it's not necessary to be ready to bowl the doosra to be effective.

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