The difference between a bent arm and one that straightens ought to be, well, straightforward.
It's important to remember that a bent arm is fine, just not one that straightens.
You are allowed a bent arm all the way through and allowed to move it within that slightly.
Former Australian captain and match referee Barry Jarman even placed a protractor next to a picture of Murali, apparently feeling that a bent arm alone demonstrated that he was bowling no-balls.
Muralitharan was born with a permanently bent arm but it is a double-jointed wrist, perhaps combined with the deformity, which is primarily responsible for the amount of turn he is able to obtain on even the most batsman-friendly surfaces.
He has courted controversy in the past with some umpires, as well as former international players, questioning the legality of his bent-arm bowling action.
The 31-year-old was later cleared by the ICC after a University of Western Australia biomechanical analysis, which concluded that the bent-arm action created an "optical illusion" of throwing.
Knicks guard Iman Shumpert, who first guarded Lin during lockout exhibition games and now does in practice, said his possessions play out like this: When he's close to the basket, he starts an "in-and-out" dribble with his knees bent and his arm straight forward, creating the idea he can go inside or outside and he does both.
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She held her arm in front of her, bent at the elbow, the hand gently extended.
But when a cross brushed Walker's arm midway through the half the referee did point to the spot for the first time, and Bent confidently beat Gomes low to his right.
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