Lee, Akhtar quality pacemen but with suspect action: Roberts
AFP, June, 2006
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Former West Indies fast bowling great Andy Roberts reopened the chucking debate saying Australian paceman Brett Lee and Pakistani counterpart Shoaib Akhtar had "suspect actions".
"They don't have many good quality fast bowlers right now. The only two that I can see and talk of, one is Lee and the other is Shoaib, and both in my mind are suspect," Roberts told The Indian Express on Thursday.
"I am not the only one, most of the world thinks so. I have watched them. I think Lee is one of the best athletes in the Australian team, but one or two of his deliveries are suspect."
Lee and Akhtar both had come under International Cricket Council (ICC) scanner before being cleared, but Roberts was not convinced.
"You look at Shoaib from side-on, you look at him from the back, I wonder if hyperextension can be that ...