Strike Three!

Deja vu, all over  again

Off-spinner’s bowling action again attracts suspension.

PTG Editor.

Monday, 23 October 2017.

PTG 228611558.

Gloucestershire off-spinner Jack Taylor has been suspended from bowling following a hearing of the England and Wales Cricket (ECB) Board’s Bowling Review Group (BRG).  Taylor, 25, has been reported on two separate occasions by different umpires within the last year and as a result undergone independent analysis at Loughborough University.

The BRG hearing took place last Friday and upheld the findings of the Loughborough analysis which showed his action is in excess of the allowed 15 degree limit.  He was previously suspended under ECB bowling regulations from June to August last year (PTG 1891-9485, 4 August 2016), and before that in 2013 (PTG 1289-6216, 11 February 2014).   As this year's reports have resulted in his second suspension within a two-year period from the start of last year’s suspension period, the ECB says he has now been suspended from bowling in "Competitive Cricket" for a minimum period of 12 months.

This suspension takes effect from the receipt of the latest independent assessment late last month. He has the ability to request a re-assessment of his action by independent analysis.  Taylor, who made his first class debut in 2010, has to date played 57 first class, 36 List A and 54 Twenty20 matches for his county.

In a League of his Own

One for the statisticians: 

Lone batsman takes control of scorecard.

Tyson Otto.

News Limited.

Monday, 16 October 2017.

PTG 2277-11524.

Its been described as 34 overs of mayhem. But that description doesn’t do a batsman in a B-Grade Port Augusta Cricket Association game in South Australia’s display on the weekend justice. Not by a long stretch.  

Josh Dunstan, who was batting at first drop for West Augusta in their game against Central-Stirling, walked to the crease with his side on 1/10, then proceeded to plunder 307 runs in his team’s total of 9/354 from their allotted 35 overs.

Dunstan, who scored 86.7 per cent of his team’s total, hit 40 sixes and nine fours.  The scorecard shows Dunstan played his part in an seventh wicket stand of 213 runs, where his teammate contributed just 18 runs, however, it also shows Dunstan’s partner knocked around plenty of singles.