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Aussie Fans misbehave again with Murali

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
Aussie fans throw egg at Muralitharan

Australian fans showed no let up in their hostility towards Muttiah Muralitharan and a group of fans threw an egg on the Sri Lankan spin wizard's face in Hobart.

"An egg was thrown at Muralitharan and it struck him", a top Sri Lankan official said in Colombo adding, the authorities were looking into the incident that happened last night.

The Sri Lankans are in Australia to play a tri-nation ODI series which also involves India.

The Island Newspaper reported that Sri Lankan cricketers, including Muralitharan, were jeered and attacked by some local residents in Hobart when they were returning to their hotel after dinner last night.

"The Sri Lanka [Images] team management had then taken action to safely guide the players back to their hotel and the police arrived at the scene," the Newspaper said.

The off spinner has had a history of hostility with the Australian spectators, who have jeered him on previous tours, forcing him to stop going Down Under for some time.

Muralitharan was no-balled by Aussie umpires and the bowler had to undergo laboratory tests to prove the legality of his bowling action.

http://inhome.rediff.com/cricket/2008/feb/02murali.htm

Disgraceful.
 

Smudge

Hall of Fame Member
Disgusting behaviour from the Australian supporters to try and bring his action under scrutiny again by throwing the egg at him, rather than bowling it...
 

Unattainableguy

State 12th Man
Some Aussies are just the worst behaved people you'll find on earth. Feel sorry for Murli though, I don't know how anyone can dislike him so much. Just shows how some people are bitter over the fact he has better stats than Warne.
 

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
What is funny that none of the big aussie newspaper are reporting this while if it was done with a aussie in another country they would have Blown it out of propertion.
Btw,it was Breaking news in india 2-3 hours ago.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Calling them fans is misterminology. These are not fans of the game of cricket nor any cricket team.

And as Gelman said, egg-throwing is an ultimate cowardly pastime. Not that common around here, but certainly not unheard of.

EDIT: hopefully Tharmi might be right. Still innate stupidity, of course, but that'd be better than what seems originally to have been the case.
 

pasag

RTDAS
Reading this report:
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,23150441-23212,00.html

I don't think it was actually intenually thrown at Murali or even the Sri Lanka officials. Sounds just like a bunch of drunken idiots throwing a egg at random people on the footpath.
Honestly, you'd rather them targeting Murali because of cricketing issues, as opposed to just going around egging people of Asian extraction (which is what I would suspect in all honesty). One is just stupidity, the other is patent racism.
 

chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
Honestly, you'd rather them targeting Murali because of cricketing issues, as opposed to just going around egging people of Asian extraction (which is what I would suspect in all honesty). One is just stupidity, the other is patent racism.
Who know they could have thrown it at them cus they were Asian. But there is as much chance they threw at them cus they were just on the footpath at the time and it wouldn't have matter if they were white, black, brown or yellow. People do a lot of stupid things when they are drunk and it is not always racially driven.
 

pasag

RTDAS
Who know they could have thrown it at them cus they were Asian. But there is as much chance they threw at them cus they were just on the footpath at the time and it wouldn't have matter if they were white, black, brown or yellow. People do a lot of stupid things when they are drunk and it is not always racially driven.
Well we have a lot of egg attacks in our area and it's clearly never random.
 

chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
Well we have a lot of egg attacks in our area and it's clearly never random.
Your probably right that it was calculated to an extent. But the thing is how would they actually know they were going to eat their. Usually those types of attacks are just at people's houses. So if they threw the egg at the hotel it would make more sense that it wasn't random.
 

pasag

RTDAS
Your probably right that it was calculated to an extent. But the thing is how would they actually know they were going to eat their. Usually those types of attacks are just at people's houses. So if they threw the egg at the hotel it would make more sense that it wasn't random.
Nah, I doubt it was calculated or planned either. I mean - I doubt they're throwing eggs at any random person on the street - they're very much driving around looking for a certain type of person to target.
 

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