Melbourne, March 05: Controversial former umpire Darrell Hair has claimed that many of the current officials suspect Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan’s action but do not want to call him in matches for the fear of creating a furore.
Hair, who called Muralitharan for suspect action back in 1995, said many of the current umpires feel the same about the Lankan but prefer to turn a blind eye.
“A couple of current umpires have said to me, ‘Something is wrong’, but they prefer to let it go,” Hair, who quit the ICC’s elite panel in 2008, was quoted as saying by ‘the Herald Sun’.
“There is still a lot of doubt about his deliveries. A few have told me, ‘There is definitely something wrong with his action, but I’m not going to call him’. They are the ones who have to live with that,” he revealed.
–PTI