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Gilchrist
shows his ‘True Colours’
Accuses
Murali of chucking
SYDNEY:
Former Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has hit
the hornet’s nest by calling spin wizard Muttiah
Muralitharan a chucker and accusing Sri Lankan authorities
of splitting the cricket world between ‘white’
and ‘black’ countries in the ‘90s
Gilchrist, in his autobiography ‘True Colours’,
minced no words in saying Muralitharan chucked the ball
and alleged that the International Cricket Council protected
him after Sri Lankan authorities interpreted questioning
of his bowling action as a ‘racial attack’.
“’Does Murali chuck the ball?’ I thought
for a few moments, and then said, cautiously: ‘I
think he does’,” Gilchrist said referring
to a question posed to him.
“I say that because, if you read the laws of the
game, there’s no doubt in my mind that he and many
others throughout cricket history have,” he wrote.
The former Australian vice-captain lamented that the
ICC changed the rules to accommodate Murali instead
of rectifying his fault when he was first caught for
the offence in mid ‘90s.
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