Nice to see Cricket Australia moving, albeit belatedly, to root out chucking. However, it's going to be a tough assignment because it has to be a bottom up effort rather than top down edict, helpful as that might be.

It has to come from grassroot clubs such as those in OUR association, and therin lies the problem because any association is only as strong as its constinuent parts. Other than a few clubs graced with huge numbers of youngsters and enough seniors/parents ready to man the baricades, it ain't going to happen. Some parents (as valued as their efforts are) who become coach/umpire because they are the only ones interested and have a car to transport four or five lads, simply don't have the ability to discern what a chuck is or isn't, especially since the cricket authorities bowed to the new "realities" of the new power block in cricket and introduced ludicurous 15 degress of bend etc (the Murili law) and virtually opend the floodgates.

It's a sad, sad thing to see so many kids bowling with hideously wrong actions and no one (especially their own clubs) doing or caring a fig about it. How sad then to hear the terrible ''chucker'' word muttered when one particular player in our comp comes on to ball. Had his action been corrected when he was still a junior, his performances would not have been sullied.

It's time for our clubs to help the kids in this contentious area, therby helping fulfil the aims of Cricket Australia.