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Monday, July 21, 2025

Ambrose: Narine can rise above struggles

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Vinode Mamchan - Senior Reporter
1744 days ago
20201012
Sunil Narine, the Kolkata Knight Riders player, has been reported for bowling with a Suspected Illegal Bowling Action during his side’s Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Kings XI Punjab at Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

Sunil Narine, the Kolkata Knight Riders player, has been reported for bowling with a Suspected Illegal Bowling Action during his side’s Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Kings XI Punjab at Abu Dhabi on Saturday.

Courtesy IPL 2020

For­mer West In­dies leg­endary fast bowler Curt­ly Am­brose says that T&T off-spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine can rise above his strug­gles in light of be­ing re­port­ed by In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) um­pires for a sus­pect bowl­ing ac­tion.

It's the sec­ond time in a month that Nar­ine has been re­port­ed by um­pires for a sus­pect ac­tion as this was al­so done by re­gion­al um­pires af­ter four rounds of the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) T20 tour­na­ment which end­ed on Sep­tem­ber 10 here in T&T.

“A sus­pect­ed il­le­gal bowl­ing ac­tion re­port has been filed by the match of­fi­cials on cer­tain de­liv­er­ies bowled by Sunil Nar­ine of Kolkata Knight Rid­ers dur­ing the Pep­si IPL 2015 match be­tween Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad and Kolkata Knight Rid­ers played on the 22nd of April, 2015 in Visakha­p­at­nam,” Board of Con­trol for Crick­et in In­dia sec­re­tary Anurag Thakur said in a press re­lease.

“As per the pro­vi­sions of the IPL Sus­pect­ed Il­le­gal Bowl­ing Ac­tion Pol­i­cy, Nar­ine will still be el­i­gi­ble to bowl in forth­com­ing Pep­si IPL match­es and may re­quest a bio­me­chan­i­cal analy­sis of the de­liv­er­ies in ques­tion at the ICC and BC­CI ac­cred­it­ed test­ing fa­cil­i­ty, the Sri Ra­machan­dra Arthroscopy and Sports Sci­ence Cen­tre (SRASSC) in Chen­nai,” Thakur said.

While Nar­ine, who got a go-ahead to play in the IPL af­ter get­ting clear­ance for his sus­pect ac­tion from the Chen­nai Bio-Me­chan­i­cal test­ing cen­tre, he will again have to un­der­go tests even though he will be al­lowed to bowl in IPL.

How­ev­er, as per ICC rules, an­oth­er sim­i­lar of­fence will in­vite a straight one-year ban for the West In­dies spin­ner, whose “doos­ra” and “car­rom ball” both have been un­der the scan­ner for the un­usu­al ac­tion with which he de­liv­ers them.

Am­brose speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports on Sun­day said he thinks that he will not be as ef­fec­tive for the re­main­der of his IPL. "It is not go­ing to be easy for him, as he will be un­der tremen­dous pres­sure. Giv­en the fact that he has got­ten this call, he will not be as ef­fec­tive for the re­main­der of the games as this cloud hangs over him."

Am­brose who claimed 405 Test wick­ets for the West In­dies at a miser­ly 20.99 added though that Nar­ine can rise above all this. "Nar­ine must re­mem­ber that he is a qual­i­ty bowler and can rise above this."

The 57-year-old An­tiguan leg­end said that the man­age­ment at KKR should con­sid­er giv­ing him a rest for a game or two. "He will be un­der great pres­sure and scruti­ny the next time he goes out there to bowl, so I think that the man­age­ment should con­sid­er giv­ing him a rest for a game or two. Let him just get a chance to take the pres­sure off, re­lax, calm his mind be­fore he re­turns. If he gets in there right now it could make it worse."

An­oth­er for­mer West In­dies play­er Phi­lo Wal­lace ad­vised that Nar­ine has to re­main men­tal­ly strong at this point in time. "It is heartwrench­ing that Nar­ine has been called again. At this point in time, he has to be men­tal­ly strong to get through this. He has to un­der­stand that he will get the full sup­port from the KKR and al­so the West In­die Board."

Wal­lace, who made his Test de­but in 1997, and record­ed a ca­reer Test-best of 92 for the West In­dies dur­ing his ca­reer added: "KKR needs to pull him from the at­tack and let him get his mind back in­to the task. They al­so need to have some­one work with him on his ac­tion and then al­low him to go back in­to the com­pe­ti­tion.

"I think this re­port from the um­pires will set him back in terms of his re-en­try in­to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. He has shown a keen in­ter­est in rep­re­sent­ing the West In­dies again and this must be a set­back.

Nar­ine, who plays for Queen's Park Crick­et Club, start­ed hav­ing chal­lengers with his bowl­ing back to 2014.

The 32-year-old, right-arm off-break bowler, was re­port­ed twice in the Cham­pi­ons League 2014 tour­na­ment and missed the 2015 World Cup to work on his ac­tion. He was re­port­ed dur­ing the 2015 IPL as well and was even­tu­al­ly sus­pend­ed from bowl­ing in No­vem­ber that year. The In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil cleared his ac­tion in April 2016 but he had to pull out of the T20 World Cup in In­dia that year. In March 2018, he was re­port­ed again dur­ing the Pak­istan Su­per League.


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