Writing in The Times of India on Friday, Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene had commented, "As for off-field controversies, all I have to say is, the more India and Australia have a go at each other, the better it is for us. Our aim is to... concentrate solely on the cricket. Anything else is avoidable."
In video: Egg thrown at Murali in Australia
Jayawardene may have spoken too soon. Muttiah Muralitharan, the universally well-liked - except in Australia - record holder for most Test wickets finds himself embroiled in yet another controversy in a country that has given him plenty of grief.
Murali was subjected to verbal abuse and had eggs hurled at him on Friday night in Hobart as he and some other members of the Lankan contingent were returning to the team hotel from a restaurant. He was reportedly hit on his leg by an egg. As a result, the Lankan board has asked Cricket Australia to tighten security around the team.
Murali has frequently been at the receiving end from Australian umpires and jeering fans. The fact that he broke Aussie spinner Shane Warne’s record certainly won’t have improved his popularity Down Under.
"Muralitharan, along with one of the selectors and the team masseur, was walking when suddenly a car passed them and the guy starts abusing," a cricket website quoted a source close to the team as saying.
"He then came back a few more times and repeated this and suddenly he started throwing eggs in their direction. One landed on the back of the selector."
http://cricket.indiatimes.com/Egg_thrown_on_Muralis_face_in_Australia/articleshow/2751818.cms
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