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Old 08-05-2004, 01:54 PM in reply to DaveGillespie's post "Murali - why is he still bowling the..."
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Interesting article. We have had some discussions on this board over the last couple of weeks and have all pulled back from accusing Muralitharan of cheating, partly because the word itself has serious negative connotations and partly to protect the operators of the board from possible action for defamation. The report on cricinfo states, however, that "Muralitharan remains a lawbreaker if he perseveres with the doosra", and it is difficult to believe that he does not know this, as presumably he has read the report of the UWA biomechanics experts. Now, just for the moment I can't think of the right word to describe someone who breaks the law and knows he's doing it ... but never mind: even if I could, we couldn't use it here, could we?