I have been following cricket a few YEARS now and I have no clue what they are referring to as “her action” any insight
Fuck India.
While I agree that India is the poster child for that sunflower meme when it comes to the actions of International players vs their own, I think they’re off the hook for this one.
Ireland was playing India in India. Maguire was reported by match officials. For an international match like this, those officials would not have been Indian.
Hopefully she’ll either be cleared, or need to make a minor adjustment to her bowling style. I don’t think anyone is suggesting she’s bowling in bad faith.
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Usually with someone’s action being illegal, they’re talking about chucking. You can have a bent arm, as long as it stays bent. If it straightens by more than 15 degrees, that’s an illegal bowling action. The article itself, frustratingly, shows no footage of her allegedly illegal bowling, so I had to go look up her bowling in other games on YouTube. Came across this video first.
Here’s her arm as it reaches the horizontal:
Just eyeballing it with a protractor on my other monitor, that does look about 15 degrees. And she appears to straighten her arm fully by the release. That would mean it’s very close to illegal.
So does action just mean bowling?
The headline says “bowling action”. It’s referring to the action of her bowling being (allegedly) illegal.
Couldn’t easily find out exactly but broadly speaking it means that there is suspicion that her bowling ‘action’ isn’t legal, probably that she isn’t fully extending her arm.
“The ICC defines an illegal bowling action as when a player’s elbow extends more than 15 degrees between the point when their arm reaches horizontal and when the ball is released.”
