
LAHORE The head of Pakistan Cricket Boards biomechanics laboratory, Prof Awais, has said that the facility meets all the required international standards to get accreditation with the International Cricket Council. “According to our record it is an international standard facility which fulfills all the laid down criteria to get affiliated with the ICC which can send its experts to check its necessary protocols,” he told this agency here on Monday. He said the lab was working on the pattern of an international standard facility which had all the modern facilities to check the illegal or suspect bowling actions. “Our lab is open to the ICC experts and we would welcome their useful suggestions for its further improvement,” he added. To a question, Awais said world’s other biomechanics labs were functioning at less spacious places compared to the PCB lab working at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and effort was underway to shift it to at a bigger centre in near future. “Upgradation of lab’s software has been done and its two faculty cameras have been replaced and our lab is working in a perfect manner.” He said the lab would extend services in the field of healthcare apart from correcting the bowlers with suspect bowling action and serving in the field of sports. “So far we have tested three bowlers reported with illegal bowling action and submitted their reports to the PCB.”