Mys­tery spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine will be twirling his mag­i­cal de­liv­er­ies for the Kolkata Knight Rid­ers (KKR) when the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) gets go­ing on Sat­ur­day af­ter he was cleared to bowl af­ter be­ing re­port­ed by the um­pires dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) tour­na­ment which end­ed on Sep­tem­ber 10 with his team the Trini­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) de­feat­ing the St Lu­cia Zouks in the fi­nal by eight wick­ets at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

Guardian Me­dia Sports on Thurs­day un­der­stands that Nar­ine, 32, a right-arm-off-break bowler and Zouks fast bowler Kesrick Williams, 30, were both re­port­ed at the end of the fourth round for a sus­pect bowl­ing ac­tion. Both play­ers were made aware dur­ing the tour­na­ment that re­ports had been made against them about their sus­pect­ed bowl­ing ac­tions. Af­ter they were re­port­ed both play­ers con­tin­ued to play dur­ing the CPL and they were mon­i­tored by ex­perts from Lough­bor­ough Uni­ver­si­ty in Eng­land. They were then re­quired to send video footage of their bowl­ing ac­tion to the Uni­ver­si­ty for fur­ther analy­sis.

A well-placed source close to the de­vel­op­ments told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Thurs­day that Nar­ine, who played five of his team's 12 match­es took six wick­ets, has al­ready done his work and has been cleared. Ac­cord­ing to the source, “Sunil Nar­ine sent in his video footage, it was analysed by the ex­perts and he was cleared af­ter that and will be tak­ing part in the IPL with the ball as well. The ex­perts al­so mon­i­tored him dur­ing the rest of the tour­na­ment and they said they found noth­ing wrong with his ac­tion.”

Nar­ine, the ace bowler of Queen's Park Crick­et Club play­er, was re­port­ed for a sus­pect bowl­ing ac­tion on March 14, 2018 dur­ing the Pak­istan Su­per League game be­tween La­hore Qa­lan­dars and Quet­ta Glad­i­a­tors.

The West In­dies off­spin­ner has had his ac­tion re­port­ed sev­er­al times in the past. In 2014, he was re­port­ed twice in two match­es and missed the Cham­pi­ons League fi­nal. He pulled out of West In­dies' World Cup 2015 squad to give him­self time to work on his bowl­ing ac­tion fol­low­ing that, re­turned dur­ing the IPL, and was re­port­ed once again dur­ing that tour­na­ment. Af­ter test­ing, his off­breaks were banned, but lat­er in the tour­na­ment he was giv­en a "fi­nal warn­ing" by the BC­CI and struck off the watch list.

He re­turned to in­ter­na­tion­al du­ty in No­vem­ber 2015, on­ly to be re­port­ed once again dur­ing his first se­ries back - lim­it­ed-overs games against Sri Lan­ka. He was sus­pend­ed from bowl­ing - even while be­ing the No. 1 bowler in the ICC rank­ings for ODIs and T20Is - at the end of No­vem­ber, and missed the 2016 World T20 as well to work on his ac­tion. He was cleared to bowl again ahead of IPL 2016.

Mean­while, Williams, who played all 12 match­es for the Zouk, fin­ished joint-third place on the stand­ing with 13 wick­ets, the same as Fawad Ahmed of the TKR, has not been cleared as yet be­cause he has to send footage of his ac­tion to the Uni­ver­si­ty. The source con­tin­ued: “Kesrick made a slight change to his bowl­ing ac­tion at the start of the CPL and the um­pires were not hap­py with him and he was re­port­ed. Af­ter this, he went back to his orig­i­nal ac­tion and the ex­perts saw no prob­lems with his ac­tion for the rest of the tour­na­ment.

“He is yet to be cleared be­cause he still has to of­fi­cial­ly fol­low the process to get cleared and one of the things is that he has to send in video footage of his bowl­ing ac­tion. In or­der to do this, he has to trav­el to Grena­da to have it done with his Wind­wards Vol­ca­noes coach An­drew Richard­son. Had he left Trinidad and To­ba­go to go di­rect­ly in­to Grena­da he would have had to face a quar­an­tine sit­u­a­tion be­cause of the COVID-19 sce­nario in Trinidad at the mo­ment. So he de­cid­ed to go home to St. Vin­cent and af­ter a few days he will fly in­to Grena­da to have it done.”

Both Nar­ine and Williams played in the fi­nals of the HERO CPL with the TKR bat­tling the Zouks and win­ning the match to claim their fourth CPL ti­tle.