Most Blatant Chucker Of The Cricket Ball

[randycricfreak]

Compare the reaction of Benaud, who was Meckiff’s skipper when he was called by a home umpire and immediately removed him from the attack for the whole match, and the disgraceful Ranatunga when Murali was called, who spat his dummy and then tried bowling him from the other end. WAC he is.

Get your facts right Burgey. It was proven that Murali's action was legal, and it was simply an illusion. Plus on such circumstances calling Murali was uncalled for, and Ranatunge did the right thing. Ranatunge had proper balls, to stand against Aussies who were preying on the brown cricketers.

Subsequent Australia cricketers have had lot of respect to Murali. Hayden, S Waugh etc. Muralitharan never chucked, it was an obsession to destroy the career of the prodigy spinner, who would then go on to become the greatest spinner in world cricket.

So learn from the facts. Arjuna deserves a lot of credit, and Murali is indebted to him.

 

[Starfighter]

Mural's bending was found to be an illusion to the pint where he wasn merely bending somewhat less that what people thought. Ranatunga was throwing the toys out of the pram for the umpires interpreting the law correctly as it stood at the time. He should've taken it up after the match. It wasn't an obsession to destroy one career, those umpires had called other bowlers in Australia, it was trying to reduce a growing problem.

 

[Migara]

Mural's bending was found to be an illusion to the pint where he wasn merely bending somewhat less that what people thought. Ranatunga was throwing the toys out of the pram for the umpires interpreting the law correctly as it stood at the time. He should've taken it up after the match. It wasn't an obsession to destroy one career, those umpires had called other bowlers in Australia, it was trying to reduce a growing problem.

Ranatunga called the shots when a leg break from Murali was no-balled by Ross Emerson. What ever we saw during that tour looked otherwise.

 

[Migara]

Compare the reaction of Benaud, who was Meckiff’s skipper when he was called by a home umpire and immediately removed him from the attack for the whole match, and the disgraceful Ranatunga when Murali was called, who spat his dummy and then tried bowling him from the other end. WAC he is.

I would have loved to see Benaud's reaction if a leg break bowler was called for throwing (which Ross Emerson did for Murali when he bowled a leg break). That would have been an ATG moment.

 

[Migara]

Start from 2:28 where Emerson calls a leg break.

 

[cnerd123]

urgh on thread has already been hijacked to talk about Murali (and has slid into nationalistic shitposting in the process), can we not do it in this thread too please.

It was actually quite interesting already.

 

[Burgey]

Usual piss. Rules were changed to accommodate McGrath and Pollock, because they were extending it more than Murali.

Yeah but you don’t drink piss to test for diabetes do you....

 

[Burgey]

I would have loved to see Benaud's reaction if a leg break bowler was called for throwing (which Ross Emerson did for Murali when he bowled a leg break). That would have been an ATG moment.

Emerson was a grandstander. Murali has been cleared by then. I’m talking about when Hair called him, which is what led to the testing regime to begin with.

 

[Burgey]

Get your facts right Burgey. It was proven that Murali's action was legal, and it was simply an illusion. Plus on such circumstances calling Murali was uncalled for, and Ranatunge did the right thing. Ranatunge had proper balls, to stand against Aussies who were preying on the brown cricketers.

Subsequent Australia cricketers have had lot of respect to Murali. Hayden, S Waugh etc. Muralitharan never chucked, it was an obsession to destroy the career of the prodigy spinner, who would then go on to become the greatest spinner in world cricket.

So learn from the facts. Arjuna deserves a lot of credit, and Murali is indebted to him.

An obsession? Mate I don’t think you realise the special place SL tours had (and still have) in Australia.

If you think anyone in CA thought that having them here in the mid 90s was anything other than a necessary imposition in between tours by decent sides you’re kidding yourself. Like, the only reason anyone even thinks about a tour by SL to Australia is Murali being called. I mean, he averaged 70 here, as I’ve said before. He was the greatest touring disappointment in cricket history when he came here ffs.

That aside, they have always been complete non-events because they are never competitive here.

No captain gets respect for spitting the dummy at an umpire or taking his team off the field or threatening to go home (Except illingworth in Sydney in 71). What a ****ing joke to suggest ranatunga is a hero for having a dummy spit at a decision by an umpire. He’s nothing but a fat, petulant, spoilt child.

 

[Starfighter]

Usual piss. Rules were changed to accommodate McGrath and Pollock, because they were extending it more than Murali.

No they weren't.

I would have loved to see Benaud's reaction if a leg break bowler was called for throwing (which Ross Emerson did for Murali when he bowled a leg break). That would have been an ATG moment.

Jim Higgs has been called afaik. And there was dissatisfaction over Kerry O'Keefe's action from some places too.

 

[Starfighter]

In order to actually get back on topic (shock! horror!) may I offer up Worcestershire fast-medium Derek Pearson?

 

[Migara]

No they weren't.

Yes they were. Murali was no where close to 12 degrees with his off break.

 

[Migara]

Jim Higgs has been called afaik. And there was dissatisfaction over Kerry O'Keefe's action from some places too.

Don't know about Higgs. O'Keefe is a left arm spinner. Not a wrist spinner. You can still call a front of the hand delivery of a wrist spinner. Calling a classic over the wrist wrist spinner for chucking, that is extending.

 

[Starfighter]

Yes they were. Murali was no where close to 12 degrees with his off break.

I'll need a source for both the '12' and the 'nowhere near' which (preferably one which doesn't contradict like two I have, one of which claims just about no extension at all for Murali and the other 14° mean for the doosra) is not the 9° determined in a paper I have.

Don't know about Higgs. O'Keefe is a left arm spinner. Not a wrist spinner. You can still call a front of the hand delivery of a wrist spinner. Calling a classic over the wrist wrist spinner for chucking, that is extending.

Kerry O'Keeffe.