Broad tweeted that bowlers can bowl very differently in a lab while being tested compared to needing wickets in the middle PHOTO: REUTERS/ FILE
Ajmal is currently playing for English county Worcestershire.
He took 13 wickets in the Midlands side's recent County Championship win over Essex, including a career-best seven for 19 in the second innings.
That prompted former England captain Michael Vaughan to post a still photograph of Ajmal bowling during that match on Twitter with the caption: "You are allowed 15 degrees of flex in your delivery swing.... #justsaying."
You are allowed 15 degrees of flex in your delivery swing.... #justsaying pic.twitter.com/GwtnIGzd6M
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) May 21, 2014
Broad, currently out with a knee injury, replied by commenting: "This has to be a fake photo?!".
“@MichaelVaughan: 7 for 19 for Saeed Ajmal this week....!!! pic.twitter.com/JWW9XpuvrN”|> This has to be a fake photo?!
— Stuart Broad (@StuartBroad8) May 21, 2014
He then added in a subsequent tweet: "Bowlers can bowl very differently in a lab while being tested compared to needing wickets in the middle."
@Orman1986 @MichaelVaughan Bowlers can bowl very differently in a lab while being tested compared to needing wickets in the middle
— Stuart Broad (@StuartBroad8) May 21, 2014
As an England centrally contracted player Broad can be penalised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) if he is found to have made derogatory comments about his fellow professionals.
Following the controversy surrounding former Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's unorthodox action, the International Cricket Council ruled bowlers could straighten their arm in delivery by up to 15 degrees.
Ajmal's action has undergone extensive testing and been passed by the ICC.
However, English cricket has long been suspicious of 'mystery' spin and innovations such as the 'doosra' (other one) whereby an off-spinner bowls a delivery that turns away, rather than towards, a right-handed batsman.
Regarded as one of the best spinners of modern times, the 36-year-old Ajmal has so far played 33 Tests, 110 one-day internationals and 63 Twenty20 matches.
He took 24 wickets in helping Pakistan rout then-world Test number one England 3-0 in their series in the United Arab Emirates in 2012.
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Looks more like a 90 degrees bend instead of 15. This is cricket not baseball. Why are most of the good bowlers in south asia chuckers?Perhaps it is the quality of coaching
God knows when English cricket will grow up...
Broad ! seeing you only reminds me that you were hit for 6 sixes.
And whenever any Pakistani player is in U.K you peoples start scratching your head to think how to get the player name in negative act.
coward acts.
what cricket 'experts' don't understand here is that a bowler is allowed 15 degrees in the starting position and the bent arm in the start gives an image of chucking.
to be honest, action does look jerky
"English cricket has long been suspicious of ‘mystery’ spin and innovations such as the ‘doosra’ (other one)"
They were also suspicious of Waqar Younis's reverse swing till Gough mastered it.