{"id":1237,"date":"2014-09-22T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2014-09-22T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T10:23:28","slug":"muralitharan-on-ajmal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/22\/muralitharan-on-ajmal\/","title":{"rendered":"Muralitharan on Ajmal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-22-15.45.241.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-09-22-15.45.241-300x298.png\" alt=\"2014-09-22 15.45.24\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Muralitharan: Ajmal must be strong<\/p>\n<p>There is one man who would exactly know how Saeed Ajmal would be feeling right now. It is unlikely that the Pakistan off-spinner would have had a single night of decent sleep ever since he was banned from international cricket for an alleged &#8216;illegal&#8217; action.<\/p>\n<p>The Lankan great, who finished his career with 800 Test wickets, felt that the best way to overcome this phase for Ajmal would be to &#8216;prove it to people that he isn&#8217;t doing anything wrong.&#8217; &#8220;In my case, I was naturally upset when the allegations (of chucking the ball) were first made against me. After all, you&#8217;re only a human! However, I believed in myself. I wanted to prove it that I wasn&#8217;t doing anything wrong. I cleared around six-seven Tests during my almost two-decade old career. Once he proves it that his action is legal, and the &#8216;bend&#8217; in his arm while delivering the ball is below 15 degrees, he can bowl again,&#8221; said Murali, who is ironically now a spin bowling coach with the Australian team for their series against Pakistan in UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muralitharan: Ajmal must be strong There is one man who would exactly know how Saeed Ajmal would be feeling right now. It is unlikely that the Pakistan off-spinner would have had a single night of decent sleep ever since he was banned from international cricket for an alleged &#8216;illegal&#8217; action. The Lankan great, who finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1815,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}