Ireland's Maguire Cleared To Resume Bowling After Fixing Action

Ireland spinner Aimee Maguire has been cleared to resume bowling successful world cricket.

The 18-year-old was suspended successful February aft nan sport's authorities ruled her bowling action to beryllium forbidden successful Ireland's one-day world against India successful Rajkot connected 10 January.

Maguire past had a bowling appraisal astatine nan ICC-accredited testing centre astatine Loughborough, England, connected 21 January.

The ICC said nan bowling appraisal recovered nan "amount of elbow hold successful her bowling action exceeds nan 15-degree level of tolerance permitted" and imposed a suspension.

On Tuesday nan ICC said that "following remedial activity and re-assessment" Maguire's bowling action was "found to beryllium legal", allowing her to resume her world career.

"An independent appraisal of Maguire's remodelled bowling action astatine an ICC accredited testing centre concluded that nan magnitude of elbow hold was wrong nan 15-degree level," it added.

The teen made her world debut successful 2023 and has 20 caps for Ireland, taking 25 wickets crossed formats.

Ireland skipper Gaby Lewis said she has "no doubt" Maguire will "pick up wherever she near off" erstwhile she is reintegrated into nan squad.

"It's a immense alleviation for her and management, they worked truthful difficult complete nan past 7 aliases 8 months to activity connected her action and nan intelligence broadside of things," said Lewis.

"It was a large deed and sound connected her confidence, but she has worked truthful difficult and is successful a awesome spot now and conscionable needs immoderate games down her."

Maguire is not successful nan squad for Ireland's three-match T20 bid against Pakistan, which originates successful Dublin connected Wednesday (16:00 BST).

Wednesday, 6 August: Ireland Women v Pakistan Women, 16:00 BST

Friday, 8 August: Ireland Women v Pakistan Women, 16:00 BST

Sunday, 10 August: Ireland Women v Pakistan Women, 16:00 BST