Prasanna, Maninder Join Bedi in Saying Murali Was Given Concessions By ICC

Sreelata YellamrazuJul 29 2010

Muttiah Muralitharan's slamming of Bishen Singh Bedi did not go down well as former Indian spinners united with Bedi over slamming Murali's action.

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Fifteen years of repressed anger by the Sri Lankan off spinner was given vent, but found no sympathy from Bedi's contemporaries. Bedi, for his part, stated that "I did not call him (Murali) a chucker. Murali is a chucker."

Maninder Singh suggested that Murali maintain a dignified silence. He hit back at Murali's comments, "If he (Bedi) was allowed to bend his arm by the ICC, he would have taken five wickets in every innings of the 67 Tests that he played in his career. Murali should keep his mouth shut really.

"Whole world knows that he has the licence from the ICC to keep chucking and that's why he started his doosra. Nobody stopped him. Wickets started increasing for him. It's best time for Murali to keep shut.

"He should understand he is talking about such a great bowler Bedi. I don't think he is doing justice to himself. I have lost respect for him after this verbal attack," is what the leg spinenr had to say of Muralitharan.

Erapalli Prasanna was equally scathing of Muralitharan's action as well as his verbal rant, "Murali should have been a little more mature. He just can't make such loose comments that anybody could have achieved Bishen's feat. We all admire him for his achievements. He should have avoided making such comments. He doesn't fit into the slot of conventional bowler. The fact of the matter is that the ICC bent its rules for Murali. With that, flexibility was allowed to him and most of the bowlers."

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