The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s bowling action review committee captured actions of two suspected bowlers on Wednesday, the first day of their operation through video cameras to assess them through software for further scrutiny. The committee will work with 10 bowlers, whose bowling actions were reported as suspect during this year’s Dhaka Premier League, and in process they asked Naeem Islam Jr and Amit Kumar to bowl all sorts of delivery they can produce in front of the cameras on the opening day.
‘We have basically captured the videos of their bowling actions. We have used six cameras from six different angles to do so,’ said the computer analyst of national cricket team, Nasir Ahmed, who was there as an expert.
‘We asked them what types of bowl they deliver. Not only a certain kind of bowling but also they bowled all sorts of deliveries that they can produce and all sorts of stock balls.
‘We will assess and let them know in 14 days,’ added Nasir.
The analyst also informed that each of the bowlers bowled 36 balls apiece.
One of the members of the four-member committee and former national cricketer Omar Khaled Rumi, who was also present during the shooting, echoed with Nasir about the assessment and said that they will prescribe the bowlers for their rectification after that.
‘I found things positive. It’s difficult to understand through naked eye. We have to watch many things in the video, their angle of delivery hand, find out if they have problem in any particular delivery, only then we may say whether they have problem or not.
‘Nothing can be said before. It will take time. We will prescribe what must be done and must not be done. We will take decision how we may rectify them.’
The four-member committee, led by BCB’s director Jalal Yunus also has Golam Faruk Suru and Dipu Roy Chowdhury as other members.
The committee was formed as the BCB planned to weed out the problem of illegal bowling action in the domestic arena following the bowling ban of pace bowler Taskin Ahmed and left-arm spinner Arafat Sunny for illegal action during the ICC World Twenty20 in India.
The other reported bowlers are Sanjit Saha, Saifuddin, Mustafizur Rahman, Mainul Islam, Rezaul Karim, Mohammad Sharifullah, Asif Ahmed and Faisal Hossain
-With New Age input
