Shakib Al Hasan suspended from bowling

Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has been suspended from bowling in ECB competitions following an independent assessment of his bowling action.

Shakib’s action was reported by the standing umpires while he was playing for Surrey in the County Championship match against Somerset in September.

Shakib completed an independent assessment at Loughborough University earlier this month, which found that the elbow extension in his bowling action exceeded the 15 degree threshold as defined in the Regulations.

This suspension takes effect from the receipt of the independent assessment on 10 December 2024, and follows the process set out in the ECB’s Regulations for the Review of Bowlers Reported with a Suspected Illegal Bowling Action.

Shakib is ineligible to bowl in ECB competitions until he has passed an independent re-assessment of his bowling action.

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Editor’s notes

The ECB can only confirm Shakib’s suspension under its jurisdiction, albeit the ICC Regulations for the Review of Bowlers Reported with Suspected Illegal Bowling Actions set out the following in Section 11.3 under the title of ‘Recognition of Decisions’:

11.3 In circumstances where a National Cricket Federation suspends a player from bowling in domestic cricket under its own rules, where such suspension is imposed on the basis of an analysis of the respective player conducted by an Accredited Testing Centre and in accordance with the Standard Analysis Protocols, such suspension shall be respected and enforced by the ICC in International Cricket and all National Cricket Federations in respect of domestic cricket under their jurisdiction automatically upon receipt of notice of the same, without the need for any further formality. The ICC and National Cricket Federations shall take all steps legally available to them to enforce and give effect to such decisions.

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