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Barbados all-rounder Raymon Reifer cleared to resume bowling slower balls and cutters
Written by Leighton Levy. Posted in Windies. | 18 January 2024 | 663 Views
Tags: Bowling Action, Raymon Reifer

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced that Barbadian all-rounder Raymon Reifer has been cleared to resume bowling his slower balls and cutters after remedial footage of his action was sent to and cleared by Loughborough University.

Reifer, Barbados Pride’s left-arm seamer, was reported by the match officials during the CG United Super50 Cup match between Barbados Pride and Windward Volcanoes on 25 October at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy. In accordance with the procedure for suspected illegal bowling actions, the match footage was sent to Loughborough University for an opinion report. The report determined then that an illegal action was used to bowl the cutters and slower balls.

He was suspended from bowling those specific deliveries during the 2023 edition of the CG United Super 50 Cup and was adjudged by the same body to be using an illegal action following an initial report from the Barbados Pride match against the Windward Islands Volcanoes on 25 October 2023.

Now cleared, Reifer has been named in the Barbados Pride squad for the first three matches of the West Indies Championship, which is due to begin in early February and run until late April.