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Sri Lanka Cricket and Muttiah Muralitharan have traded caustic verbal blows following an altercation between Murali and the Sri Lanka team manager. SLC has made a formal complaint to Cricket Australia over the altercation, and has also contended Murali had conducted centre-wicket training at the Pallekele ground without permission.With consternation about Muralis role as spin-bowling consultant with Australia already high at SLC, a rumour began to circulate that Murali had influenced the preparation of a turning pitch at the P Sara Oval for Australias practice match last week. Having represented Tamil Union Cricket Club for much of his career, the P Sara Oval was effectively Muralis home ground. It is a venue where he commands substantial respect.Sri Lanka would have preferred Australia to play their practice match on a seaming deck at odds with the surfaces that would be prepared for the Tests. Yet, Australia spinners Steve OKeefe and Nathan Lyon shared 12 scalps in that game, on a surface that had begun to take significant turn by day three.Having caught wind of the suggestion that he was responsible for the nature of that pitch, Murali said he confronted Charith Senanayake, whom he believed to be the source of the accusation. Murali denies having had any influence over the preparation of the P Sara pitch. Senanayake denies having sparked the rumour.Charith has accused [me] and told the media that I have cut the grass on the pitch to help Australias spin bowlers to take the wickets in the three-day game. Thats a lie, Murali said. When I met him I asked him: We played together and respected each other, why are you telling lies?, he told me that they have just made an inquiry.The Tamil Union wicket was made at the time by Janaka Sampath, who is the SLC board curator. They should clarify from him what actually happened, rather than going on rumour.Tempers are understood to have spilled over during the exchange. SLC was eventually notified, and on Monday, its president Thilanga Sumathipala said the board was deeply disappointed by Muralis actions and had lodged a complaint with CA.There are two problems here, Sumathipala said. The first is that Charith Senanayake has made a complaint that he had been berated. The second is that a certain training session for the Australia players at Pallekele had been carried out without permission.Were very disappointed because Murali is a player the board spent a lot of effort saving. We saved him three times. From a professional standpoint, there is no problem with him working with the Australian team. But the issue here is an ethical one. Weve named the trophy the Murali-Warne Trophy.And I remember once when we went to Kandy with Murali, he was on a truck and there was so much support for him that it took four hours for him to get home. Kandy is his hometown, and hes now had to coach an opposition team at Pallekele. Regardless of professionalism, were very hurt by this.SLC vice-president Mohan de Silva attempted to calm tensions, stating the board had not lost respect for Murali, but others within the cricket establishment had continued to express their dismay. When Sri Lankas sports minister also expressed disappointment over him taking the Australia job, Murali reacted by admonishing the board for casting aspersions upon his ethics, and drew attention to his substantial body of humanitarian work.About two years ago, the board headed by Nishantha Ranatunga asked me to do some work with the spinners and I said yes, and I went and worked with the Sri Lankan spinners for 10 or 15 days, Murali said. Since then no Sri Lankan board has asked me to do any job. If they had asked me before the [Australia] series to be a consultant, I would have said yes. They didnt want me, and someone else wanted me. How could I be a traitor to this country? Australia asked me to coach for the entire series, but I told them I can only do 10 days because I dont want to be in the opposition dressing room during the match in Sri Lanka, thats not ethical.Sri Lankan people have done a lot for me, and I think I have done a lot for them as well. Along with a friend Ive opened the Foundation of Goodness, where every year we help 50,000 families. We built 1000 houses after the tsunami. Cricket-wise, through the foundation, we made about 30-40 wickets in the Northern and Eastern provinces. We hold an annual reconciliation tournament. We do more than what Sri Lanka Cricket does, with our own funds.Murali said Sri Lankans pursuing coaching opportunities with other countries was a result of their being unfairly treated by the SLC.These people who are accusing me should go and look in the mirror [and compare] what they are doing to the country and what I am doing. The other fundamental wrong is that when our players become brilliant coaches, the board chases them off. Im talking about Chandika Hathurusingha, Chaminda Vaas, Marvan Atapattu, Mario Villavarayan, and Thilan Samaraweera, who went to Australia. These people are all working in different countries where they are valued more than they are here.What we do is bring all the top coaches from abroad when we already have the talent. We are not using it. Am I the traitor or are they the traitors? When they pay also - the foreign coaches are paid so much more than the Sri Lankan coaches.Murali was also incensed by how much had been made of his association with Australia in particular, a role which he felt offered personal vindication given his travails in Australia during his career. He had initially worked with the Australia spinners during a series in the UAE in 2014, before being approached again ahead of this series.I know in 95 and 96 I had problems against Australia, and the whole of Sri Lanka backed me. I thought that when Australia asked me to coach, thats them saying that I dont do anything wrong - that I am correct and they were wrong at the time. Thats their proving it by asking me to train their spinners.Does SLC think that just because I coach Australia for 10 days, Australia will win? If thats the case I am the best coach in the world, and Sri Lanka should hire me every time, and we will win every time.Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara tweeted in support of Murali on Monday evening. Murali is a great son of Sri Lanka and he doesnt have to defend himself. He loves his country, Sangakkara wrote. He is free to consult or coach anyone. If SLC had ever asked him to coach Sri Lanka, he always will. His consultancy with anyone is a way he can give back to the game.He has given his best to his country on the field and off. He is always available for his country, all they have to do is ask. We [should be] proud of him. If any Sri Lankan spinner walks up to [Murali] and asks him about bowling, he will be the first to spend as much time as needed to help. Free.Kevin Greene Jersey . 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Tomics father, John, is due in a Spanish court in October, accused of head-butting Bernards hitting partner in Madrid this month. The ATP and International Tennis Federation both barred John Tomic from receiving credentials for tournaments. The French tennis federation announced Monday it had told the ATP, Bernard Tomic and his agent that the father would not be allowed onto the grounds of the clay-court Grand Slam tournament, even as a paying spectator. "Nothings changed between my dad and I," Bernard said. "Its still the same." After the 61st-ranked Tomic stopped while trailing 7-5, 7-6 (8), 2-1 against Victor Hanescu of Romania, a reporter asked what it was like to not have a coach courtside Tuesday. "Its a little bit different, but, you know, my dads still my coach, and hell always be, because, you know, I grew up with him and he knows me better than everyone else," Tomic said, while also noting he is considering adding another person to help work with them. Tomic began playing tennis at age 7. In 2011, at only 18, he became the youngest quarterfinalist at Wimbledon since Boris Becker in the 1980s. Viewed as Australias most promising player, hes taken a step back, though, making only one fourth-round appearance in the seven Grand Slam tournaments since. And his nascent career has been marked by off-court issues. In November, he was fined and put on a 12-month good-behaviour bond after twice being stopped by Australian police for driving offences near his Gold Coast home. "I showed that I can play, but this is the problem at a young age -- youre up and down," he said. "So Ive got to just keep working hard, keep trying, because once I get there and get to where I want to be, then theres no stopping me." A moderator began Tomics ppost-match news conference by saying: "Before we start, Bernard has a few things to say, and we wont be taking questions after his comments, other than on the match, OK?" Tomic then began: "Hello, guys.dddddddddddd I hope youre well. You know, Id like to say some things before you guys ask me about them -- obviously involving my father." He added: "Involving the incidents that happened, I dont want to talk about it a lot -- at all, if I should say. And its a very difficult thing for me, you know, to put my words into that. If you can respect all I have to say about this, you know, Im happy to talk about the match." John Tomic had not been seen at the Roland Garros complex Tuesday, French federation spokesman Christophe Proust said. "Weve taken maximum precautions not to let him in," Proust said, adding that the younger Tomic "was playing on Court No. 6, which is a small court, so its easy to see whos in the stands." The hitting partner that John Tomic is accused of injuring, Thomas Drouet, is now working with French player Marion Bartoli, who won in the first round at the French Open on Tuesday. "During training and during the match, he helped me a lot," Bartoli said. After only three games against Hanescu, Bernard Tomic called for a trainer to work on his right leg. After getting his hamstring massaged, Tomic continued to play but was limping. "Its very unlucky. I prepared very good to come play here, and the second point, I felt my leg sort of tear and didnt know what it was. It was very strange. I never felt this pain before," Tomic said. When he headed to the locker room during a rain delay, a doctor told him the muscle was torn. "Lucky its not huge. Its not eight weeks, its not six weeks; probably just a week or two. So Im going to try as much as I can to recover" in time for Wimbledon, Tomic said. Clearly, there is a lot on this college-age kids mind at the moment. By the end of his potentially awkward 10-minute session with reporters -- a son discussing his in-trouble father -- Tomic was making himself smile. When he was asked whether he felt a bit lost without support Tuesday, he replied with a chuckle: "No, I just didnt feel my leg at all. Thats all I didnt feel. So if I hadnt done what I did to my leg, maybe I would have thought about that. But considering that I couldnt feel my leg, thats all I was thinking about." ' ' '