In this article he was even criticizing ICC as “Faced with having to rewrite the record books to contain a runaway Murali, the ICC took the easy way out - they rewrote the law book instead. It's a dubious accomplishment”.
The said person does not know that extensive research conducted by the International Cricket Council is set to reveal that 99% of bowlers in the history of cricket have been throwers.
According to Derek Pringle in the Daily Telegraph, Murali is no different from the vast majority of his fellow players. The current law states that there should be no straightening or partial straightening of the bowling arm during delivery, and in-depth research has exposed that even bowlers like Glenn McGrath and Shaun Pollock, usually considered exemplars of the classical action, occasionally go over the prescribed tolerance limit, bending their arms by as much as 12 degrees.
So we can assume that either Paul Lewis does not know cricket or he his having the usual problem which has been coming with their western sick mentality.
Further he was in the view that “New Zealand's own Daniel Vettori and Martin Crowe are among those who do not believe the doosra, for example, can be bowled legally or within the spirit of cricket's laws”.
This will reflect his frustration of the incapability of players of his side! We can see so many remarks like this in the western based news papers and even Ross Emersion who had no-balled Murali was still was giving some interviews to some newspapers claiming that he was not changed his mind yet. He is the person who said to the Daily Telegraph in Australia that he no-balled Muralitharan due to orders from an unnamed Cricket Australia official!
But this article I want to drawn a parralell between Murali’s incident and Sri Lanka victory over LTTE .Once Sri Lankan forces defeated the LTTE, certain elements of western media started to condemn the government and forces in Sri Lanka(still they are doing that) After first year victory celebration of Sri Lanka Time magazine (19th May 2010) put its caption of one article as “The Sins of Sri Lanka's Great War Victory”. So it is clear that they want to underestimate the victory. This is going in line with “That 'but' spoils 800 benchmark” of Lewis in Murali’s Matter .What aver the victory of these part of the world been not accepted by them.
So we have to understand the mentality of the people. This is purely because of the incapability. They even do not know about the 2500 long history of this country. If they visit to places like Polonnaruwa they will understand the caliber of our people. I think then only they will realize that Sri Lankan forces can defeat any guerrilla movement in the world and even they will appraise the achievement of Our cricketing hero-Murali. It is a duty of Sri Lanka tourist authority to organize a round trip for these said journalists in Sri Lanka to showcase our proud history. In Buddhism is says as “Ehe Passiko”(come and see).
Reference:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10661016
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1990299,00.html
