Muttiah Muralitharan : Why Murali??

- Venkat

With the heavy balloon of “chucking” floating atop the ICC’s brainwaves, it seems nothing more than an act of inactiveness that has propped the ICC to turn stringent towards a man who’s cricketing integrity has been under the scanner since 1995, when he was first ‘called’ 7 times in 3 overs for throwing by umpire Darrell Hair in Australia. But the question that the ICC has failed to reply in an acceptable manner is “Why only Murali?” – Something the ICC has no answer to. And to me, trying to ban someone after he has scaled the summit of all that a bowler can, just seems a cynical step towards self-mockery. If I can accuse the ICC of double speak on any issue, I think the chucking one is right on top. After being cleared by ICC approved experts repeatedly after being called, the ICC now in its own way goes against its own ruling, which unfortunately reveals the lack of single-mindedness in Cricket’s Governing body. Read full article...

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Statistics of Muttiah Muralitharan's Career :  

Test Matches : Batting and Fielding

 
      M    I   NO   Runs   HS    Ave    SR   100  50   Ct  St
     120  151  51   1156   67  11.56  69.22   0    1   68   0

    Balls    M     R     W     Ave    BBI    5  10    SR    Econ
    40035  1699  16137  735  21.95   9-51   63  20  54.46   2.41

      M    I   NO   Runs   HS    Ave    SR    100  50   Ct  St
     305  139  51    516   27   5.86  70.01    0    0  120   0

    Balls      M     R     W     Ave    BBI   4w  5w    SR   Econ
    16534     182  10674  464  23.00   7-30   13   8  35.63  3.87