10 weirdest bowling actions

Bowling actions are building blocks for any bowler. The first thing that you come up with in your quest to become a bowler is a fixed bowling action, and then you fine-tune it along with learning the nitty gritty details of the art. The fine-tuning is done by the coaches and seniors who help in getting the best out of one's natural action.Bowling actions can be a bowler's boon and in some cases his bane as well, the recent banning of Saeed Ajmal for an illegal action all but confirminga the fact. Now we are not going to go into the legality of it all because everything and anything is up for dispute out there.Instead,we will look atthe most weird, odd and obscure looking actions that have managed to grace the international stage.So here's the list of top 10 weirdest bowling actions in cricket.

#10 Shaun Tait

The Australian speedster Shaun Tait, well known for dishing out deliveries in the 150+ km/hr bracket, has a pretty odd looking action for a big man like himself. Some suggest his consistency in delivering those quicker deliveries was due to the fact that he had this slinging action.

Tait suffered various injuries due to his taxing action which made him limit his appearances in the longer formats of the game, forcing him to take an indefinite break from Test cricket as well as retiring from one-day internationals so as to focus solely on Twenty20 cricket.