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ICC: ICC Move On Suspect Bowlers (28 Jun 1996)

FAR-REACHING measures to prevent bowlers with suspect actions reaching international cricket are to be introduced next year, if an International Cricket Council proposal is accepted next month

28 June 1996

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ICC move on suspect bowlers

By Charles Randall

FAR-REACHING measures to prevent bowlers with suspect actions reaching international cricket are to be introduced next year, if an International Cricket Council proposal is accepted next month.

An ICC advisory panel are to be formed to deal with this embarrassing topic, inflamed last winter by the Muralitharan affair in Australia.

David Richards, the ICC chief executive, admitted: "It has got serious ramifications, including restraint of trade." The ICC meet at Lord`s on July 11.

Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lanka off-spinner, was no-balled in two matches by Darrell Hair, the Australian umpire, with no ICC machinery available to placate an indignant management.

Source :: Electronic Telegraph (http.//www.telegraph.co.uk)