PCB wants ICC umpires to call faulty bowlers
Reuters, Lahore
Pakistan cricket authorities want the International Cricket Council (ICC) to encourage and back umpires to call bowlers with suspect bowling actions instead of making them go through a lengthy review process."There is a law which clearly defines what is an illegal action and empowers umpires to no-ball such bowlers," Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) director Saleem Altaf told Reuters on Wednesday. "The ICC needs to encourage its umpires to practically apply this law on the field despite the pressures of such an action," he said. Altaf will accompany pace bowler Shabbir Ahmed to Dubai for an appeal hearing on January 21 regarding a 12-month suspension imposed on the Pakistani bowler for having an illegal action. The PCB has appointed former Test pacer Sarfraz Nawaz to modify Shabbir's action and has prepared video footage that it believes will help his career at the hearing. International umpires now rarely call a bowler for a suspect action on the field and instead report him to the ICC.
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