Muttiah Muralitharan Profile, News, Ranking and Achievements

Muttiah Muralitharan

Muttiah Muralitharan 

Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan former cricketer. He retired from Test cricket in 2010. Muttiah Muralitharan attended St. Anthony’s College in Kandy and began bowling off-spin on the advice of his coach. He made his Test debut against Australia in 1992 at age 20, taking two wickets with successive balls. When England toured Sri Lanka the following year, many batsmen found Muralitharan’s spin difficult to read and expressed concern about the legitimacy of his bowling action. To the naked eye, Muralitharan appeared not to bowl the ball but rather to flick it with a bent arm and flexible wrist. According to the rules of cricket, if his arm was bent and then straightened at the point of delivery, the ball would be deemed a throw (hence illegal), but Muralitharan’s arm remained bent throughout the action. Exhaustive studies by the International Cricket Council (ICC) of both his action and the physiology of his right arm showed that the bend was a natural deformity and therefore not illegal.

In 1995 Muttiah Muralitharan was called for “chucking” (illegal delivery) seven times in one day by an Australian umpire and again in a one-day international match by two other Australian umpires. But it was not until four years later, once more in Australia, that he was again charged with throwing. Muralitharan’s development of a new type of delivery, nicknamed the “doosra,” in which the ball turns away from a right-handed batsman, prompted still further allegations of throwing in 2004; however, in early 2005 the ICC modified the rules to allow Muralitharan’s unusual arm movement.

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