Saturday, December 8, 2007

Murali, The Wizard


Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972 in Kandy, Sri Lanka), often referred to as Murali or as The Wizard,is a Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated as the greatest bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002. He is Test cricket's highest wicket-taker, having overtaken the previous record-holder Shane Warne when he bowled Paul Collingwood for his 709Th Test wicket, in Kandy, his home town, on December 3, 2007. He is also second in the list of One Day International wicket-takers.
In spite of these facts he is also the world's most controversial cricket player as it became a governments issue between Australia and Sri Lanka.

Controversy of bowling action

Initial concerns as to whether Murlitharan's action contravened the laws of the game by straightening his right arm further than is allowed while bowling broke into open controversy after Australian umpire Darrell Hair called a "no ball" for an illegal action seven times during the Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne, Australia, in 1995. Australian Sir Donald Bradman, universally regarded as the greatest batsman in history, was quoted as saying it was the "worst example of umpiring that [he had] witnessed, and against everything the game stands for. Clearly Murali does not throw the ball".
In 1999 he was once again called for throwing by Ross Emerson during a One Day International against England at the Adelaide Oval in Australia. The Sri Lankan team almost abandoned the match, but after instructions from the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, the game resumed. The Sri Lankan captain at the time Arjuna Ranatunga, was later fined and given a suspended ban from the game as a result.
It later emerged that at the time of this match Emerson was on sick leave from his job due to a stress-related illness and he stood down for the rest of the series. Muralitharan has voiced his frustration at routinely being heckled by Australian crowds who accuse him of throwing - one common jeer directed at him was "No Ball!". Following the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard's statement that Murali was a "chucker", Muralitharan indicated that he would skip future tours to Australia.This incident marked as a black mark in history of cricket.Australians showed their real face behind the mask it revealed their state of values.However John Howard faced the consequences losing his seat in the parliment.
This is the final conclusion; no matter how hard they try Murali will continue his game as he always did.There are shit load of comments you can find in the internet which state against Murali but the for our suprise the profiles of the people who commented says that they are from Australia.
The answer for all these is "The moon doesn't heed the barking of dogs"

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