There was an article in wednesday’s age under the headline ‘Death of the doosra.’ Now it is Harbhajan who must be submitted to the scrutiny of the biomechanists. Chris Broad is becoming a hateful villain, he is a colonial throwback. No one takes on the doosra and comes out of it with any respect, dignity or humanity. Chris Broad is looking death in the face. He will not kill off the doosra for it is already death – I have said this elsewhere. Broad does not act out of courage, he acts out of prejudice and ignorance. He acts from a basis that is ridden with morals that have nothing to do with cricket. The doosra is of cricket, it carries all the force of cricket with it and it will wreak its terror upon all those who confront it. When it is a batsman confronting it, the battle is magnificent to watch and the world feeds of it. When it is an administrator, the administrator is nothing but a fool. When a fool tries to poison cricket he does not last long.

Murali is the only authority that needs to be listened to on the matter – no one throws. It is obvious and it is really that simple. Watch harbhajan bowl and it is clear that he is bowling. That is not how one would throw.