Talk:Throwing (cricket)
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By asking umpires to distinguish between an arm bent at 14 degrees and at 16 degrees as a bowler releases the ball at 90mph, the ICC has set them an impossible task. Nor should umpires have to decide what type of delivery was bowled; they already have enough to do in a split second. Richie Benaud makes it clear in his book My Spin On Cricket that the buck was passed to them for legal, not cricketing, reasons. Laboratory testing of questionable bowlers is a nonsense as they will be on their best behaviour. The ICC should decide an enforceable law and then back its umpires up. There remains the question of what that law should be... - AG, Stockport.
