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EXCLUSIVE: Darrell Hair reveals why he no-balled Muttiah Muralitharan on Boxing Day 1995 – Wide World of Sports
‘If he was allowed to take wickets, it wouldn’t be right’
Former international umpire Darrell Hair says he “wouldn’t have been doing my job” had he failed to call Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing.
It was 25 years ago today that the cricket world was plunged into chaos, when Hair no-balled Muralitharan seven times during the Boxing Day Test at the MCG.
The 68-year-old Hair, who retired from international umpiring more than a decade ago, found himself at the centre of one of the most controversial summers in recent history, when Sri Lanka…
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