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FEB 5-Well maybe this date might not be very significant in the life of majority,but indeed an important date for the cricketing world.This is the day that ICC announced its new rules regarding chucking.Bowlers will be allowed to straighten their arms by up to 15 degrees and the process for analysing suspect actions will be standardised and streamlined,And the joke a few days later CHRIS BROAD FINDS THAT HIS NAKED EYE CAN MEASURE 15 degrees when BHAJJI bowls the dossra.Well to start off "what is the meaning of the word chucking".Reffering to the dictionary you get to see that chucking means "to throw or toss".In the cricketing world this term has come to be associated with subcontinent bowlers ,be it quick or spin .Well if you look at the various cricket playing nations you could get to see that it is just that the subcontinent team bowlers that come under the scrutiny of the "INTERNATIONAL CHUCKING COMMITTEE(ICC)".Well nasser hussain one of the best captains england has seen(that speaks of the quality of the other captains),once labbelled murali a chucker.Come on nasser just because you and your team cant play spin bowling you come out and label him a chucker?.Then why didnt you dare to brand BRETT LEE a chucker,or in that sense even MCGRATH a chucker.Well the answer is clear ,genuine dislike for the subcontinent teams(and that too from a captain with indian roots).Let me see it this way ,the only way these english players are gonna hog headlines is by beating poor west indian and mediocre south african teams.Apart from that no one with some cricketing logic can imagine this so called second best test team,coming to india sri lanka or pakistan and winning a test series in the near future.Well another thing that bemuses me is the different stand of match refrees.Indian players were fined and given bans for excessive appealing ,and the face of indian cricket SACHIN TENDULKAR was banned for tampering the ball by ,one match ref namely mike denness(captain of England team when his colleague John Lever left handed fast bowler started brill cream or any liquid cream to get shine of the ball and was caught and no action was taken by Mr.Mike Denness as a Captain against him ).Well a few weeks after that Mcgrath and Ramnaresh sarwan argue like street fighters ,and all ICC or the match refree does is fine them.It is high time that this sort of attitude changes.All should be fair and fine .All countries should be given equal respect.MURALI will be the highest test wicket taker only for the so called experts to speak about warne's ball of the century(i have seen indian offie rajesh chauhan bowling a better ball than that) and talk of warne as a better spinner rather than murali,while sachin will be the highets run getter in both form's of cricket only for experts to say that steve waugh was better than him.