5 Bowlers with controversial bowling actions

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3. Marlon Samuels

Marlon Samuels

Marlon Samuels

Like Muralitharan, Samuels has also fallen under the ICC Radar several times. Samuels’s off-spinner was deemed to be legal, but it was his quicker delivery that was the cause for concern. Many experts expressed their surprise at the pace with which Samuels at times delivered the ball, saying that it would not be possible to bowl that fast from that short a run-up with a normal bowling action. The ICC banned him from bowling the quicker one in 2011, but after he underwent remedial action, he came back into bowling that delivery.

However, last month, he was pulled up again, and this morning, the ICC has again benned him from bowling the quicker delivery.

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