Just a little less boring than the boring “sport” golf

Let’s not forget that he has done so much for the tsunami-affected people in his home country, financing and building more than 1,000 houses for the displaced through his charity. Kudos and many hearty congratulations Muthiah Muralitharan. Or in Tamil, முத்தையா முரளிதரன் வாழ்க!

The other international sport that is too boring to watch.”

The World Series is international?;)

The other international sport that is too boring to watch.

There is an issue that has been troubling me for last 10-15 years but I dare not ask any of my friends. It is about the Murali’s coach at St.Anthony’s college Katugastota who discovered Murali. Does he have super natural powers ? Murali’s action became a controversy after he started taking autralian wickets during middle of the 90′s.A panel of experts including doctor’s cleared Murali acton .Since he has a bended arm,to the naked eye ,it looks like he is chuckig but he is not.Surprising thing is that many of the ballers like McGrath or Gillespie who seems to have a clean action bends thier arms at delivery ,too.The limit was set for 13 degrees after the panel’s findings. So when St.Anthony’s coach found and mentored Murali in early 80s he must have had super human eye to distingush that this obvious chucker is not chucking .I know for fact that this technolgy did not exists in early 80s and even Sri Lanka national team did not have any access to such technology let alone an outstation high school team like St.Anthony. Murali is a great human being and has done a lot for Sri Lanka and Cricket.One of the unintended consequences of his legacy is that there will be lot of questionable action players will be able to survive in many levels.

the most depressing thing about the chucking ‘controversies’ was that no one was honest–even if you’re bowling a light-as-poddi tennis ball, your elbow flexes in a way you can intuitively grasp with a basic understanding of physics.

His 7/30 in Sharjah 2000 against the masters of spin, the Indians, has to be my favorite memory though there are so many. And having taken even half the number of wickets, is there any player that can claim the same amount of friends? I think Bishan, his strike-rate of 80, sanctimonious attitude and monstrous paunch represent chagrin at having lived partly in the era of uncovered wickets and great bowlers and not having achieved much outside of motivation for cranky, verbal argy-bargy.