It is still a burning question among the cricketing fraternity: Is Muralitharan’s bowling action legal?
“When I heard that the rules would now allow a degree of straightening – 15 degrees to be exact, a fraction more than Murali’s straightening had been measured at – I thought ‘That’s a load of horse crap. That’s rubbish’,” wrote Adam Gilchrist in a response to ICC’s change of bowling action law in 2005 to allow bowlers to straighten their bowling arm up to 15 degrees.
You can find in detail about his unique bowling action and the techniques involved in our in-focus blog here.
Muttiah Muralitharan must be the only wrist off-spinner who has faced many challenges because of the deformity in his hand. Lots of questions and controversies were raised on Murali’s bowling action. Right from the beginning, the Australians were against the bowling action of Muttiah Muralitharan.
