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Bedi brands Murali a chucker
Sunday 3 February 2002
Former Indian Test captain Bishen Bedi has launched a stunning attack on modern spinners and says Sri Lanka's leading wicket-taker, Muttiah Muralitharan, is a chucker.
"If Murali doesn't chuck, then show me how to bowl," Bedi, says in the February issue of Wisden Cricket Asia. "How can you call it bowling? He (Muralitharan) has no follow-through and he makes no use of his shoulders. Murali's arm doesn't go up at all. I have a picture of him bowling somewhere. He looks like a good javelin thrower."
Muralitharan, who reached the 400-wicket milestone in fewer Tests than any bowler before him, has had his controversial action cleared by the International Cricket Council. The integrity of his action is clouded by the fact that his bowling arm is permanently bent due to a congenital deformity. Bedi says this is irrelevant.
Referring to Murali's arm, he said: "It's just too bad, honestly. Some people are born blind ... Will a blind man be allowed to fly an aircraft? Why should a bowler be allowed to chuck because he has a defective arm?"
(havent posted entire article here...but)
Unfortunately, it will do no good, but I dtill reckon he is a chucker, not every ball, but chucks nonetheless. No doubt, the racists call will be made, but like I've said before, if it looks like a chuck, smeels like a chuck, feels like a chuck, its a chuck!
Bedi brands Murali a chucker
Sunday 3 February 2002
Former Indian Test captain Bishen Bedi has launched a stunning attack on modern spinners and says Sri Lanka's leading wicket-taker, Muttiah Muralitharan, is a chucker.
"If Murali doesn't chuck, then show me how to bowl," Bedi, says in the February issue of Wisden Cricket Asia. "How can you call it bowling? He (Muralitharan) has no follow-through and he makes no use of his shoulders. Murali's arm doesn't go up at all. I have a picture of him bowling somewhere. He looks like a good javelin thrower."
Muralitharan, who reached the 400-wicket milestone in fewer Tests than any bowler before him, has had his controversial action cleared by the International Cricket Council. The integrity of his action is clouded by the fact that his bowling arm is permanently bent due to a congenital deformity. Bedi says this is irrelevant.
Referring to Murali's arm, he said: "It's just too bad, honestly. Some people are born blind ... Will a blind man be allowed to fly an aircraft? Why should a bowler be allowed to chuck because he has a defective arm?"
(havent posted entire article here...but)
Unfortunately, it will do no good, but I dtill reckon he is a chucker, not every ball, but chucks nonetheless. No doubt, the racists call will be made, but like I've said before, if it looks like a chuck, smeels like a chuck, feels like a chuck, its a chuck!
