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I’ve decided to highlight a reader comment every week. Sometimes, our readers leave really intelligent comments.
Here’s a latest one from Hilal in response to the Murali video. Somehow it ended up in the spam queue, so you didn’t notice it probably.
Thank you for highlighting the video. It was uploaded by me. If you pay close attention to the video you will note that his wrists are what deliver the ball. Along with a massive thrust from his shoulders. Due to his congenital deformity his body has adapted. Hence the supple wrists and abnormal shoulder rotation. …read more

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Chucking is all over me. So here goes.
While this is not a substitute for 3-D analysis and we’re not biomechanics, 2000 frames/second is slow enough for our eyes to observe bowling actions from varying angles.

I don’t really know if this is 2000 frames/sec, but it’s slow enough.
I am not going to say that it’s okay, because we all have different opinions regarding what throwing action is, and different eye (specs) powers.
As far as I am concerned, I think he bowls pretty neatly for his hypermobile joints. What do you think?

I know, I know, you can’t judge someone’s action simply from ordinary observation, but just take a look at this video. No trace of chucking, IMO. What is the power of Vettori’s specs, again?

I never understood why I didn’t like talking about chucking. Now I’m seeing some daylight. I figure it’s because of how close a resemblance the word chucking bears to the f-word. Anyway, let’s get to the point.

Daniel Vettori called Shaun Tait a chucker, and this gave everyone something to talk about. I find it funny how everyone devoted so much space to it. Why it’s everybody’s waste of time:
* Basically, what Vettori is trying to do is cut iron with iron. When a team is up against Oz, they want to get all macho and show them what stuff they’re …read more