Murali report forwarded to the ICC

The Sri Lankan board has forwarded the report on Muttiah Muralitharan's doosra to the ICC. Mohan de Silva, the board president, confirmed the news: "The report from the University of Western Australia (UWA) was sent with the observations of the bowling review group to the ICC on Friday," de Silva told Reuters. "The details of the report will now be circulated by the ICC to their officials."

The doosra, and the report prepared by UWA, has already generated plenty of controversy. Bruce Elliott, the ICC-approved biomechanics expert who carried out the tests on Muralitharan's action, strongly recommended that spinners be allowed to bend their arms to a greater degree than the current five degrees stipulation. "Most assuredly the five degrees [rule] is based on illogical data because they've just tested fast bowlers and assumed that there is some relationship between fast bowlers and spin bowlers," Elliott told reporters. "Fifteen degrees is the right angle to select for fast bowlers and you probably should come down to 10 degrees for spin bowlers."

However, the ICC has since reiterated that it does not plan to tamper with current tolerance levels. According to the tests, Muralitharan's arm bends ten degrees while bowling the doosra, making it an illegal delivery.