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Muralidharan Called for Chucking on Boxing Day | A Brief History of Cricket

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Muralitharan's chucking controversy erupted at the 1995 Boxing Day Test when umpire Daryl Hair repeatedly no-balled the Sri Lankan spinner, igniting a crisis that would change cricket's laws forever.

00:00:00 Sri Lanka's First Tour of Australia
00:05:27 Murali Called for Throwing at MCG
00:10:42 Murali's Career Hangs in the Balance
00:16:06 Murali Vindicated, Rule Changes Follow
00:21:32 Tendulkar Shines on Treacherous Perth Pitch
00:27:02 Tendulkar Cements His Legendary Status
00:32:44 Brian Lara Dazzles in One-Day Series
00:38:29 Lara Drives West Indies to Victory
00:43:53 Shane Warne Emerges as a Spinning Force
00:49:40 Warne Seals Australia's MCG Triumph

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20 Comments

@kasunabeysinghe8910 1 month ago (edited)

Arjuna was always the captain cool until it goes fair and square but like this situation he stood up for his boys bravely. The best captain Sri Lanka ever had.💪👍

@rohanmarkjay 8 days ago

These Aussie made Cricket Documentaries are absolutely fantastic. How sports documentaries should be done.

@dharshanalevan5848 1 month ago

Calling leg break as chucking...?Obviously they deliberately did it

@amilanuwansiriwardana8475 1 month ago

Lovely video, great

@dilrukgalagoda6651 8 days ago (edited)

As A Sri Lankan teen I hated Daryl Hair, But as an Adult... Now I realized his negative push made Murali to became One of the Greats. Without Rebellious Arjuna, Murali wouldn't seen another day in cricketing world. These " Legends " taught us not to being " Victimized ".

@yashua2211 10 days ago

To call him for leg breaks was criminal

@iandavies6474 1 month ago

His action's legal - they changed the laws to make it so 😂

@seshadrianantharaman7676 1 month ago

the heroes in the Murali story - Arjuna, Murali, the team members and Beefy... listen to Beefy's commentary in the '98 incident... i am sure Tony Greig might have defended him but i am not sure

@yashua2211 10 days ago

Hair is the only one that can unite india pak and sri lanka together

@sherwingomes1071 1 month ago

Darrell Hair is now trying to justify his call of no balling Murali. But nothing will erase the shame of his attitude and demeanour on that day towards Murali. Guess he had to live with his decision all the rest of his life.

@anilprasanna 1 month ago (edited)

You can clearly see that the arm is not bending during leg spin. That proves that there was no deformity and his off breaks were clearly a chuck. Sorry to say but undue advantage to get 800 test wickets as opposed to nathan lyon getting 500 wickets.

@MahiruFdo 1 month ago

Darrell Hair was later caught and pleaded guilty for stealing cash from a liquor store he worked. That says enough about his character and reasons for his calls. Also explains why he even called the leg spin for chucking. Enough said, Hair was just a waste of a human life. Murali's action may have had doubts to be cleared but Hair was on a different mission here.

@AntonClerence 1 month ago

Australians were scared of Murali's bowling and it was a set up by Aussies, it's obvious when Enerson called no ball for a leg spin.

It's disgrace to Australian cricket

@ibnadam1987 1 month ago

Sadly to say that Darrel Hair was most racist umpire i have seen in my life. And it happened under watch of ICC.

@nickvegas2459 9 days ago

Never have I ever heard a Sri Lankan say that Murali's action for in the least bit doubtful! I play a lot of cricket in Asia and some actions are obviously thrown. When an Indian says you throw then you obviously throw.

@thetruth9116 4 days ago

To this day many accuse Murali of 'chucking' despite his action being cleared by an Australian university and the ICC. Even one of the prime ministers of Australia of that time, came forward and called him a cheat while he was touring there (Sri Lankans never treated Aussies with such disrespect).
Yet the same hypocrites keep silent and pretend Warne never got banned for taking d r u g s. And if the subject is bought up, they act like they are experts on what kind of d r u g s he took. 'Oh they were just weight loss pills'. If they were just 'innocent weight loss pills', he would not have been banned for using them. In reality the ICC knew it was often used as a masking agent to hide PEDs in the bloodstream.

@riyazraufAHouseSOLDName 1 month ago

Hair or No Hair, Muralis Balls are fair

@Pakianathan8 1 month ago

Because Australian cricket board no if murali is play till lifetime. He will break the record and Shane won't cannot take highest wicket taker.

@DineshKumardineshkumarj 1 month ago

Gurusinga :
Team playing with lara never won, world cup, But, sachin secured wc with india in 20011.
I dont know how he says lara will win you matches.. But, lara is goat as SRT is.
I dont know how this ranking works without compparing ICC tournaments.