PCB hire Carl Crowe to work with Mohammad Hafeez on bowling action

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has hired Carl Crowe, a bowling coach from England, to help Mohammad Hafeez correct his action. Crowe has already started working with the off spinner in Worcestershire, where Pakistan were playing a two-day tour game.


Hafeez was reported for the first time in opening Test against Sri Lanka in Galle in June last year. 

Subsequently, he was banned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in July and the suspension expired last month. Though he was allowed to bowl in Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 tournament, the board barred him from bowling in the Pakistan Super League (PSL).
 
"Crowe has worked a lot with West Indian spinner Sunil Narine and the results were good. Crowe's name was recommended to us also by the team management," a team official told PTI on Sunday (July 31).
The work on his remedial action was further delayed when he suffered a knee injury in March this year, ahead of the England tour. "He was not working on his bowling action due to his knee injury which has now improved a lot and he himself is keen to play and bowl in the one-day series," the official said.
 
Crowe has already helped Narine make a successful return to competitive cricket after he pulled out of the ICC World Twenty20 in India after having doubts over his corrected bowling action. He returned to international cricket in the tri-series involving West Indies, Australia and South Africa. Crowe was hired by Kolkata Knight Riders ahead of the Indian Premier League. Narine played 11 games and picked up 11 wickets at an average of 27.63. The move seemed as a well thought out one as the off spinner also represents Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League.
 
Crowe played for Leicester from 1995 to 2002 as an off spinner. After his retirement, he worked with the England women's cricket team as a bowling coach.