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Message: [QUOTE="1910, post: 3698970, member: 8272"] The umpires are WI and South African. The location has nothing to do with it. He hasn’t been accused of chucking, it might be one ball he bowls and might have been once or twice. If the umpire thinks he sees something they have to check it with footage after play and then if it confirms their eye test, they have to make the report. The panel and the science at the time said that if you kept it at the current law you would have to no-ball everyone- Even McGrath was above the threshold- it was changed to 15 degrees because that's the first time the human eye can see a bend. [I]What the ICC needed was more information, and the Champions Trophy that summer provided the perfect opportunity; with all of the world’s best teams in the same place, in an environment run by the ICC, they were able to test away to their hearts’ content. The results were astonishing, and had a wide-ranging impact on the sport going forward. [URL='https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/icc-study-reveals-that-99-of-bowlers-throw-141558']The results of the study,[/URL] released in November 2004, revealed that only one of the bowlers they had tested had a degree of elbow flex below the five-degree limit – Ramnaresh Sarwan, whose looping leg-breaks were seldom employed by West Indies, was the proud possessor of a technically clean action. The report suggested that a jaw-dropping 99 per cent of bowlers in cricket’s history had been throwers, according to the ICC’s definition. That included Glenn McGrath, Shaun Pollock, Michael Holding (part of the six-member investigating panel of Test cricketers) or any other bowler known to possess a traditionally clean action.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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