Taskin Ahmed, the Bangladesh fast bowler, is confident of soon
getting ready to get his remodeled bowling action tested by the
International Cricket Council (ICC). Bangladesh Cricket Board's bowling
action review committee, on Sunday (July 31), tested Taskin's action at
the National Cricket Academy ground in Mirpur after he had spent time
with coach Mahbub Ali Zaki over the last few months.
Taskin also
played in the Dhaka Premier League in April after the ICC banned Arafat
Sunny and the pacer from bowling in international cricket after their
action was found to be illegal during the World Twenty20 in India.
"It
feels good that we have such technologies at home now," Taskin said.
"The test has given me more confidence. I have spoken to a number of
experts who said that my bowling action has improved."
The
21-year-old is now confident of getting his action cleared after
revealing some experts found improvement in it and acknowledged he
didn't have to make any major changes.
"If I keep going at this
rate, I will be ready for the main test soon," he said. "I never really
needed a major change in my bowling action, because the problem wasn't
that big. They found three deliveries faulty out of seven overs."
Even
though Nasir Ahmed, the the BCB's Management Information Systems
manager, conceded that it will be difficult to conclude if Taskin's
action is completely legal since they used only a 2D camera to test him,
the board is still keen to see if there are improvements made on
certain areas before sending him to the ICC.
"We have taken his
footage in a professional way, for the first time since his rehab
began," Nasir said. "We will analyse the footage of this test and those
from his rehab. We will see his progress before sending him for the ICC
bowling action test.
"We have done the test in 2D camera, but the
ICC's test will be in 3D so it will be hard to be 100% sure about his
action. But we can judge how much he has improved and whether he has
been able to grasp what he was told to work on."
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