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Are you expecting ICC to give preferential treatment to players based upon when they were caught. This could mean an ultra chucker could debut next year or this year and play the next world cup.
Saeed Ajmal was tested before the world cup. Do you know that teams suffer injuries before world cup. It's a part and parcel of the game. The ban was imposed two months before and Pakistan had adequate time to change things around.
Do you know our players were banned midway through the tournament. That is far worse because it's difficult to have alternatives midway and it really is detrimental to team plans but 2 months prior to the world cup should not be a big factor.
Your point is that Ajmal should have been banned earlier or after the world cup. Well guess what he was suspected in 2014. He probably didn't chuck as much before but even a visually impaired person could see ajmal chucking a lot in 2014 and he was rightfully banned. If your point is that Ajmal should have been banned a few months earlier that is a matter of the harshness of ICC on the rules. We know ICC became strict in 2014. But thats a tale for a different day
This ajmal legacy was a legacy where a bowler took unfair advantage of the ICC simply being casual about chucking in the first place. We saw that when he was bowling with lesser straightening he was mediocre. Yes all those records will now seem like they were built on a foundation of chucking.
Btw folks compared Amir and ajmal. Don't compare. Amir sold his country's pride for a few bucks. Ajmal was no cheat. He gave his Level best but only took advantage of the conditions. Does that mean he did not deserve all the accolades? Perhaps. Does that mean he brought shame to his country? No.
how could one use the word caught when ICC called it legal?
injuries in something else. But taking out a fully fit man due to rules is something else. Thats like comparing apples to oranges.
Ajmal's chucked even when he came new in the team, but was cleared by ICC.
Stop putting forward the lame argument that oh he was legal but hten he started chuking. That never happened. His action was the same ever since.
Thats ICC fault not Ajmal for having such testing procedures