1. Ajmal Reported for Action by Cricket today
in Sports / Extreme Sports (submitted 2014-08-12)
Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has been reported for suspect bowling action for the second
time in his career and will undergo further testing over the next three weeks. The International
Cricket Council said in a statement that match officials handed a report on Ajmal's suspect
bowling action to Pakistan team manager Moin Khan soon after Sri Lanka's dramatic seven-
wicket victory at Galle International Stadium. The report, according to ICC, "cited concerns over
a number of deliveries that were considered to be suspect and concluded that the bowler's action
must needed to be tested." According to regulations, a bowler is not allowed to bend his bowling
arm more than 15 degrees. Ajmal was previously reported in 2009 during one-day series against
Australia in Dubai before he cleared all the tests. Over the next three weeks Ajmal is permitted to
continue bowling in international cricket until the results of the testing are known.
The Pakistan Cricket Board said it has no "choice but to wait for the outcome of the process
before proceeding further in this matter." The 36-year-old off-spinner has taken 174 wickets in
34 test matches and 182 wickets while competing in 110 one-day internationals. He has also
played 63 Twenty20 internationals and taken 85 wickets. Ajmal has often troubled batsman with
his "doosra" €" a delivery that spins away from right-handed batsmen. But it was the same
delivery that ran him into trouble in 2009 before he was cleared by University of Western
Australia. In May England's fast bowler Stuart Broad had also questioned Ajmal's bowling action
in his tweet and said that the off-spinner used different bowling actions on the field and during
testing. Ajmal claimed 5-166 after bowling nearly 60 overs in Sri Lanka's mammoth reply of
533-9 in the first test, but his first wicket came after conceding over 100 runs in the 47th over
when he dismissed captain Angelo Mathews for 91.
Nyumbu's five limits SA
South Africa made 357 in its first innings and led Zimbabwe by 113 at the end of the third day of
the one-off test at Harare Sports Club. The Zimbabweans were 28-1 in their second innings after
posting 256 in the first, and were facing an expected uphill battle against the top-ranked team.
South Africa's 141-run first-innings lead was built on scores of 98 by Faf du Plessis and 81 from
Quinton de Kock, who combined for a 119-run partnership for the fifth wicket to put South
Africa in control. Still, South Africa's run-scoring was slow at 2 runs per over as the visitors
ground their way in front on a lifeless pitch where batsmen worked hard for their runs. Off-
spinner John Nyumbu took 5-157 on debut for Zimbabwe, making use of a surface that favored
the slow bowlers to claim the important wickets of Du Plessis and JP Duminy, who made 55,
among his haul. Vusi Sibanda (8 not out) and nightwatchman Donald Tiripano (1 not out) took
Zimbabwe to the close in its second innings, still more than 100 runs behind and without
experienced opener Hamilton Masakadza, who fell for 19 to a fierce rising delivery from Morne
Morkel. Morkel got one near the end of the day to rear up sharply toward the throat of
Masakadza, who fended it away to AB de Villiers in the slips. It was one of very few balls to
find some life on the dry deck in Harare. With South Africa continuing on 201-4 in the morning,
Du Plessis and De Kock put together the best stand of the match to give the tourists a clear
2. advantage. Du Plessis batted for nearly six hours and faced 264 balls, but fell two short of his
fourth test hundred when he clipped a catch to a close fielder off Nyumbu. He hit 11 fours. De
Kock had to restrain his normally attacking game to hit only five fours and a six, and he also fell
to spin when he miscued a drive off Sean Williams to Sibanda.
Duminy made his sixth test half-century and Dale Steyn briefly raised the tempo with two sixes
off Nyumbu before the spinner struck back to remove him for 19. Nyumbu's maiden five-wicket
haul came when Duminy fell to another close catch trying to reverse sweep, and the bowler went
down on his knees to celebrate an impressive debut despite Zimbabwe's tough position overall.
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