Rules were bent for Murali, says Prasanna
New Delhi: Spin legend EAS Prasanna has defended former team-mate Bishan Singh Bedi and termed Muttiah Muralitharan's outburst as "totally uncalled for".
Prasanna told CNN-IBN that "Murali should have been more mature" and added that Bedi, in fact, "is one of the greatest left-arm spinners to have ever played the game". The spinner, who was also part of the famed spin quartet of India in the 1970s, said that Muralitharan "does not fit into a conventional type" of a bowler and that "rules have been modified" for him.
Noted cricket commentator and analyst Harsha Bhogle also thought that Murali "has got it desperately wrong when he calls Bedi an ordinary bowler".
"You may not like someone but that doesn't make a legend bad," Bhogle said on social networking site Twitter.
"By Murali's reasoning anyone who gets only "200" is no big deal. Were Mikey Holding and Andy Roberts ordinary bowlers? Pity.
"Doesn't make Murali a lesser bowler but am surprised at his outburst. Unlike the person I know. Anyway, guess each entitled to his view!," he tweeted.
Meanwhile, former Australian skipper Steve Waugh has defended Murali's outburst of having called Bedi an "ordinary" spinner, who had not right to comment on him.
"Muralitharan has been right in hitting back at Bishan Singh Bedi," Waugh said, adding "Bedi has been criticising Murali for a long time, so it is only justified."
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