Scoop! The MURALI REPORT !

[R W S]

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The tests were conducted with the most up-to-date technology at the
Biomechanics Laboratory of the School of Human Movement and Exercise
Science at the University of Western Australia by a team led by
Professor Bruce Elliott. The nine-page confidential document
comprising the "Bowling Report — Mr. Muttiah Muralitharan" by
Professor Elliot and Jacque Alderson and the "Remediation Report — Mr.
Muttiah Muralitharan" by Mr. Foster is with The Hindu .
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READ IT AT

http://www.hindu.com/2004/04/29/stories/2004042905562200.htm

[Notts Exile]

Even if Murali bent his arm 45 degrees they would find a way of letting him contunue to play. How they can allow him to contiunue is beyond me. He chucks, that they have concluded, end of story.

[Oliver]

That article quotes vast sections of utter balderdash. If you make a rule which is for everyone, then you shouldn't allow some people to break it...it doesn't make sense.

The guy throws his "doosra" by the current laws of cricket...therefore he should not be allowed to bowl it.

Do we have to go by the "three strikes and you're out" rule?
I'd rather we didn't...baseball is such a terrible game.

[Mark Kidger]

What is astonishing is that he is even breaking the 10º recommendation of the Australians. A 14º straightening of an arm that "cannot straighten" is a huge amount. It also gives the lie to the "optical illusion of straightening" - 14º is way past any illusion.

[Oliver]

come and join us in the chat room

[DaveGillespie]

And another thing - after being banned from bowling the doosra, he took the first Zimbabwean wicket in the 5th ODI today with it. Zim were 79/0 and in a very strong position. Scuppered by an outlawed delivery, they must be sick as hypocondriac parrots.

[Mark Kidger]

Originally Posted by DaveGillespie

And another thing - after being banned from bowling the doosra, he took the first Zimbabwean wicket in the 5th ODI today with it. Zim were 79/0 and in a very strong position. Scuppered by an outlawed delivery, they must be sick as hypocondriac parrots.

One assumes then that Mike Proctor will know what to do. One wonders if he'll have the courage to do it and risk ending his career as a match referee.

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Mark Kidger

One assumes then that Mike Proctor will know what to do. One wonders if he'll have the courage to do it and risk ending his career as a match referee.

I was hugely impressed by Darryl Hare on the previous English Caribbean tour, (god maybe it was the one before) when he (Hare) started giving Jimmy Adams out for his bull**** defensive.

I thought then and there, that here was a decent umpire at last.

But they trod on him didn't they? When Murali started to get under everyone's skin.

[Occasional Fan]

Wow! One thing's for sure: you get a full report in The Hindu! I'm afraid, though, I don't understand all this stuff. How is an umpire ever meant to determine whether a bowler's arm straightens by more or less than five or ten degrees? It's just unworkable, isn't it? Everyone knows what a straight arm looks like (although Murali has never seen one in the mirror), but all this work on the question of "how bent is bent" seems strange to me. Nothing can convince me that Murali is not a habitual chucker, I'm afraid. I feel sorry for the guy having a congenital defect in his arm, but if he's got one and it makes it impossible for him to be a bowler, well maybe he shouldn't be bowling.

[Oliver]

Originally Posted by Occasional Fan

Nothing can convince me that Murali is not a habitual chucker, I'm afraid. I feel sorry for the guy having a congenital defect in his arm, but if he's got one and it makes it impossible for him to be a bowler, well maybe he shouldn't be bowling.

GLORY BE...somebody who feels exactly the same as me.

We'll have to be careful. We might be accused of being the same person...it's a good job you're in Prague and I'm in London.
I don't know anything about Prague...except that that's where they shot all the outdoor scenes in Amadeus.