Chucking in cricket is an illegal bowling action where a bowler bends his arm while delivering a ball. As per the rule books in cricket:
“the rotation of the shoulder is compulsory to impart the required velocity on the ball. a bowler can only bend their elbow up to 15 degrees maximum, at the time of releasing the bowl from his/her hand. If the angle is more than 15 degrees the delivery will be considered illegal.”
The on-field umpire can declare the ball as no-ball and announce the ball as illegal if he thinks the bowler has done chucking, As chucking gives the bowler the unfair advantage, the advantage is more beneficial to spinners when comparing it with fast bowlers.
What exactly happens if a bowler gets reported for chucking?
If the umpire concludes that the bowler has done chucking, he will mention everything in the match report and will submit it to the match referee and then the match referee sends the copy of the report and statement to the team’s manager and International cricket council (ICC).
Then the first step begins when the ICC panel reviewing the action of the bowler in the match. If the international cricket council finds the bowler is guilty and has delivered illegal delivery by doing chucking he will be banned from international cricket until he fixes his bowling action.
Here are 5 IPL cricketers who were called out for chucking:
1. Siddharth Trivedi
Siddharth Kishorkumar Trivedi is a cricketer who has represented Gujrat and is currently part of the Saurashtra Cricket team in domestic cricket. Gujarat cricket association faced a lot of trouble at the end of 2009 because Siddharth was caught by umpires doing the illegal action of chucking.
He has only represented the Rajashthan Royals franchise in the IPL and has picked 65 wickets at an average of 29.29 and an economy of 7.58.
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2. Mohnish Parmar
The Gujarat-based spinner Mohnish Parmar currently plays for the Gujarat Cricket team. He had openly confessed to the media that he had to visit NCA to fix the problem of chucking. Due to losing his efficiency in Bowling, he started focusing more on becoming an all-rounder.
He has represented Shahrukh khan’s franchise Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL and has played only 1 match bowling 18 deliveries and conceding 33 runs and he went wicketless in that match.
3. Rajesh Pawar
RajeshPawarr had a very good career of thirteen years, he played for Mumbai and Baroda in domestic cricket. He played 85 first-classmates picked 281 wickets also was part of 36list A matches and 8 T20 matches. Pawar was called out for doing chucking in a league match for Baroda in 2009.
He was part of Delhi Daredevils and Mumbai Indians in the IPL at a point time in his career.
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4. Sarandeep Singh
The right-arm spinner had a very good start to his career as he was able to pick six wickets in his debut Test match for India. However, he was caught for chucking during the Super League group A match between Mumbai and Himachal Pradesh in November 2009.
He had represented India in 3 Tests and 5 ODIs scoring 43 and 47 run picking 10 and 3 wickets respectively. He was part of Delhi Daredevils in the IPL.
5. Sunil Narine
One of the most promising spinners of the Indian Premier League; Sunil Narine. He is an integral part of KKR’s Bowling department representing Kolkata Knight Riders he has picked 130 wickets in 124 matches at an average of 25.07 and an economy of 6.7.
Narine was reported for chucking in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) by umpires Ulhas Gandhe and Chris Gaffney.
This was not the first time he had faced that situation as many times he has been called for chucking that’s the reason he started focusing more on improving his batting skills.
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