:> Simpson defended the present system, praising the illegal action committee
:> as an excellent body, and saying there should be no problems provided
:> procedure was followed.
:> "It has worked in the past without trouble. The members are working
:> very well together, most diligently and professionally, and I think it is
:> necessary in the interests of the game," he said.
:The ICC Panel is absolutely essential. No question whatsoever about it.
:However, I feel after any adverse decision, there should be a means by which
:the accused Bowler together with his coach and captain can put forward their
:side of an appeal face to face with say a sub-ICC panel of three.
:We are talking about the career and livelihood of a cricketer, which ever
:country he may come from.
Did you miss the reports that Michael Holding, a member of the committee,
was going to fly to Pakistan to help him with his action, or that once it
was decided that he would stay in Australia that he would do some work with
Lillee, which he subsequently blew off.
--
Ian Galbraith
"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings
kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that
Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United
AFC offered you conflict and art." - J.B. Priestley
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