Narine Boost for Knight Riders, Bowling Action Cleared by ICC

Sunil-Narine
Sunil Narine’s bowling action was cleared by ICC. Image Source: Xtra Time

Internet Desk: Kolkata Knight Riders got a huge boost ahead of their campaign in IPL 9 as their mystery bowler Sunil Narine has been cleared by ICC. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday confirmed that following remedial work and retest, the bowling action of the West Indies’ Sunil Narine has been found to be legal, and the off-spinner can now resume bowling in both international cricket and domestic cricket events worldwide.

At the retest, it was revealed that the amount of elbow extensions in Narine’s bowling action for all his deliveries that were tested was within the 15-degree level of tolerance permitted under the ICC regulations for the review of bowlers reported with suspected illegal bowling actions.

The umpires are free to report Narine in the future if they believe he uses a suspect action.The retest was performed at the Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai on 28 March.

Narine was reported during the third One Day International against Sri Lanka on 7 November 2015 in Pallekele and subsequently banned.

Confident about Narine getting ICC Clearance: Kallis

The Knight Riders management was quite confident about Narine getting the clearance. According to coach Jaques Kallis ,“He has done a lot of work. We haven’t got official verdict from the ICC yet but hopefully it will come back positive. I’m pretty sure of it,” said Kallis.

Although Narine got the clearance from ICC, but his availability for Knight Riders opening match against Delhi Daredevils is in doubts . The spinner is now in Trinidad to attend his father’s funeral . His father died in the morning of World T20 final on April 03.