Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal, who has been barred from international cricket due to a suspect action since September last year, has reportedly accused Indian off-spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Harbhajan Singh of chucking. In a series of tweets, Zainab Abbas, a sports anchor/analyst for a local Pakistani TV channel, revealed that Ajmal claimed in an interview that all of Harbhajan's deliveries were bowled with an illegal action. “Never seen him (Ajmal) this frustrated. Ajmal claims that Harbhajan chucks for sure. He said 'main challenge karta hoon keh woh 15 degrees ke andar nahin' (I challenge that his arm bends more than the permissible limit of 15 degrees),” Abbas tweeted.
The offie, who took 178 wickets in just 35 Tests, also alleged that those running the game were applying the `chucking law' to specifically target Pakistan's players, while ignoring the bowling actions of Ashwin and Harbhajan. Ajmal has accused the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of not providing any help to him to overcome the crisis, which threatens to end his international career for good. “I'm highly disappointed over why the PCB did not fight my case on a medical basis. Had they done it, the story would have been different,” he said.
