BRISBANE: The University of Western Australia (UWA) has raised serious doubts over the reliability of the recent biomechanics tests which resulted in suspension of Pakistan ace spinner Saeed Ajmal from international cricket.
ESPNcricinfo reported that UWA, which withdrew its services from the ICC in March this year because of a dispute over its intellectual property, claimed the ICC was using their methods ‘unsatisfactorily’.
“We have withdrawn our services,” Jacqueline Alderson, an associate professor in biomechanics at UWA told the website.
“We were initially aggrieved by the ICC leveraging our research without our knowledge or permission. However that is now compounded by the lack of transparency surrounding the current testing.”
In particular, UWA expressed concerns about the monitoring of Ajmal’s action after it had cleared the off-spinner in a previous test in 2009.
Alderson said that in tests conducted on Ajmal in 2009, the ‘frame of ball release’ was crucial in establishing the legality of his bowling action.
“More than any other bowler we have tested,” Alderson said, a large number of Ajmal’s deliveries would have been illegal in the 2009 testing if the point of ball release was identified to be “1-2 frames or 0.004-0.008 seconds later”.
The university highlighted four areas of concern in the current tests conducted by the ICC: (A) The method of judging the moment of ball release (B) The repercussions of placing markers in different places (C) The influence of both elbow ‘flexion’ and ‘extension’ (D) The continued use of 2D imagery in testing
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