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Muralitharan out to prove his `doosra' right
London: With the help of an Indian doctor, Test cricket's highest wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan is out to prove experts wrong that flexion plays a part in imparting spin while he bowls his `doosra.'
Muralitharan demonstrated at Shenley Cricket Centre in Hertfordshire here that flexion plays no part in imparting spin when he bowls either the `doosra' or the orthodox off-breaks. The Sri Lankan first bowled at a turf net to a competent club cricketer to show how much turn he generates normally, then with an impediment, which weighed approximately 2.5 kg, according to a report in The Independent daily.
The impediment, developed by an Indian doctor and comprising three steel bars wrapped in nylon, was strapped across his elbow, thus making the joint immovable.
While the 32-year-old accepted the brace is not scientific, at least when he is wearing it and it immobilises the elbow, he proved that it is his shoulder which supplies his pace and his wrist which imparts spin, and that flexion does not play any part in his action. — PTI
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