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Originally Posted by horizon
That's what precisely my point was. If it required a visible change to get back to a legal action, then he would have been called in Domestic cricket.
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Bowlers have been called in domestic cricket though. 10 of them this past season, of which the BCB says 5 are real chuckers or still chucking. In fact, one bowler was called twice, IIRC.
Even at the ICC level, 95% of the bowlers called in the last 10 years have been called since teh ICC started clamping down in 2014 with Saeed Ajmal and Sunil Narine.
In other words, whether at domestic or international level, umpires start calling once they've been instructed to clamp down.
Ajmal didn't just start chucking the day he was called. But he'd been doing it for years and over the course of thousands of overs bowled under the umpires eyes.
Of course, Taskin may get called again since his action has not changed. If its not visible different in slow motion with today's 1080p HD resolution videos, then it wasn't changed. Certainly doesn't require 6 months of alleged rehabilitation.
Mashrafee has had obvious changes to his bowling action over the years and he never put in 6 months of work solely for that purpose.