UWA and ICC: A tale of mistrust

UWA have come in position of direct disagreement with ICC's recent campaign against chucking

KARACHI: University of Western Australia (UWA), according to ESPNcricinfo, have come in a position of direct disagreement with the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) recent campaign against chucking, claiming that the secrecy surrounding the new procedures is ridiculous and the reliability of these recent tests is questionable.

ICC, who benefited from the university’s models and protocols to test for illegal bowling actions for more than 20 years, had recently galvanised its approach towards potentially illegal bowling actions only a few months before the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.

UWA raised concerns over the settlement of new testing centres in Brisbane, Cardiff and Chennai and registered that the testing could be carried out by staff which is inapt for the job.

An associate professor in biomechanics at UWA, Jacqueline Alderson, said her team were ‘astounded’ by the general lack of information provided to the home boards or the testing centres carrying out the work.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2014.