Tests were carried out by biomechanical experts at the University of Western Australia and the ICC outlawed the doosra after studying their findings.

BBC: Muttiah Muralitharan

The delivery was outlawed by the ICC last May after receiving a report which was jointly produced by Sri Lanka Cricket and the University of Western Australia.

BBC: Muttiah Muralitharan

Traditionally, says Jan McMillen, a gaming-industry expert at the University of Western Australia, Asia has either prohibited betting, or doled out exclusive privileges to well-connected crony capitalists.

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The 31-year-old was later cleared by the ICC after a University of Western Australia biomechanical analysis, which concluded that the bent-arm action created an "optical illusion" of throwing.

BBC: Muttiah Muralitharan

The University of Western Australia has analysed Muralitharan's action on behalf of Sri Lanka Cricket, who were obliged to act after he was reported by Chris Broad in the third Test.

BBC: Muttiah Muralitharan

Another study just published in Biology Letters, by Sarah Kilgallon and Leigh Simmons at the University of Western Australia, has, however, thrown light on a previously unexplored part of the male side of reproduction.

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In an accompanying commentary, Prof Ian Small from the University of Western Australia - who was not involved in the research - said the vast variations between the genetic data of angiosperms gleaned from mitochondrial genome sequencing made " untangling their evolutionary histories difficult".

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