WICB set up committee to help suspended bowlers

The West Indies Cricket Board has set up a review committee to assist their international players under the scanner for suspect bowling actions.

Bowlers suspended by the ICC can continue playing domestic cricket in their country with the permission of their local board and the WICB has established this committee to "review, assess and make the relevant recommendations of all the international players before they are allowed to bowl in domestic competitions."

This move comes in the wake of the ICC suspending several of their spinners for illegal actions. On Sunday, Marlon Samuels was barred from bowling in international cricket for 12 months after copping his second suspension in two years. He was first reported in 2008, after which he had stopped bowling for three years.

West Indies' premier spinner Sunil Narine is also under cloud. His action was reported during an ODI against Sri Lanka in November and a test done at Loughborough indicated his elbow extended beyond the 15 degree limit for all of his variations. Although that was the first time he was pulled up in international cricket, his action had come under repeated scrutiny in the Champions League T20 in 2014 and subsequently led to him skipping the World Cup 2015.

Narine can ask for a re-test of his action at any time now, but Samuels will have to wait until his 12-month suspension is complete.

Shane Shillingford had faced the same problem after a tour of India in November 2013. He had been West Indies' first-choice Test spinner at the time, and has since had success at correcting his bowling action.