Melbourne, Oct 20 (PTI): He has “forgiven and forgotten” former umpire Darrell Hair but Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan says the chucker jibe that came from Australia’s ex-Prime Minister John Howard still rankles him.
Hair had called Muralitharan for chucking during the 1995 Boxing Day Test at the MCG and though the Lankan feels that the controversial umpire made a mistake by doing that, he has decided to let bygones be bygones.
“I have forgiven (him) and forgotten,” Murali said.
“I had been very upset with him, but I have let it go. I am not upset with him. People do make mistakes and I think he made a mistake. My action has been cleared,” he was quoted as saying by ‘The Daily Telegraph’.
“But I’m not going to look at the past any more.
“What I really didn’t like was the comments Howard made (in 2004).
