Lou Rowan thinks Ron Reed is a Pinhead. You remember Ron Reed? He's a Self Confessed Idiot. Here's a picture:
Oh, him. Yes, dim him. Let's recap:
What can be said for certain is that Murali is entitled to be fed up at the constant taunts about his controversial bowling action.
The treatment of Murali has an altogether darker edge to it.
[His action] has been deemed acceptable.
Even if there were no restrictions on how the ball was delivered.
Driving him out of the game - or out of Australia - is not in anyone's interest.
However, Lou Rowan isn't a brain dead pseudo-pundit, he was a highly credentialled Test Umpire. According to Rowan:
The spinner's name should be expunged from cricket's record books.
Rowan, who umpired 26 Tests in the 1960s and 1970s, claimed he had spoken to four other former Test umpires recently who agreed Muralitharan's action did not conform with cricket's throwing law.
"It is not based on racism. There is a deep-seated, but not publicly expressed resentment over the bowling action of the Sri Lankan, Muralitharan"
"The actions of cricket authorities in permitting and encouraging this man to continue in cricket is incomprehensible and a travesty of justice."
I disagree with his comment that there's no "publicly expressed resentment". There's plenty of that. Unfortunately there's no "officially expressed resentment". Those gutless appeaseniks at the ICC should join the It's-About-Oil appeaseniks as shrapnel sponges in Bagdad.
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