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Harbhajan's action under scrutiny
November 16, 2004 21:20 IST
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is one of the seven cricketers in the world who have been drawn up by the ICC's special sub-committee as bowlers with highly suspect action, Australian media reported on Tuesday.
The list also contains Sri Lankans Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas and Pakistan superstar Shoaib Akhtar, who have taken more than 2000 international wickets between them.
West Indian Jermaine Lawson, Pakistan's Shoaib Malik and Bangladesh's Sanwar Hossain are also under intense scrutiny as cricket prepares to introduce a major overhaul of the way it polices suspect actions, an Australian website reported.
The actions of these seven bowlers stood out as being highly suspect in exhaustive slow-motion testing to finetune the new chucking guidelines.
The list contains no Australians although Muralitharan asserted yesterday that new technology had revealed Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee and Jason Gillespie were all breaking the rule by straightening their arms beyond the current limit of 10 degrees.