Spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan has backed the ICC’s system of dealing with suspect bowling actions because it removes the on-field umpires from the roles of judge and jury.

The Sri Lankan, who was called for throwing on two tours of Australia and went on to take a world-record tally of 800 Test wickets, now finds himself working for the Australia team as a spin consultant on a 15-day contract.

The retired spin great spoke to the media in Sharjah following Australia’s win in the first match of the one-day series against Pakistan.

Pakistan have been wounded badly by the withdrawal of their star spinner Saeed Ajmal from the one-day and Test series because of a chucking ban.

Ajmal is having twice-daily sessions with Saqlain Mushtaq in a bid to fine-tune his bowling action.

Tests showed Ajmal’s average elbow flexion was almost twice the legal limit of 15 degrees.

Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has questioned the timing of the recent crackdown on bowling actions, which has included bans for New Zealand’s Kane Williamson and Sri Lanka’s Sachithra Senanayake.

Waqar says losing key bowlers is a massive drama for teams only a few months away from the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in February and March. He argues the technology should be enforced after the tournament.

But Muralitharan says Ajmal should be confident of playing in the World Cup.

“Definitely if he works on it for two, three months,” Muralitharan said.

“He’s working on it with Saqlain Mushtaq. He can teach him and he can work hard.

“Nothing is impossible in life.”

Waqar has also said it’s natural for the elbow to bend beyond 15 degrees to bowl the doosra and a solution must be found.

Muralitharan says bowlers are capable of producing the doosra delivery within the legal limit.

“I have tested so many times,” said Muralitharan, 42.

“My doosra is 10.4 degrees.

“It depends on the bowler.

“I like this present system because when an umpire thinks from his human eye point of view that somebody’s suspect, he says suspect and that is not the last verdict.

“The bowler has a chance to prove himself innocent.

“That is fair enough because earlier you didn’t have a chance like that.

“So that is unfair because you’re talking about a player’s career, livelihood and everything.

“Bowlers also have to prove themselves so that opportunity’s there so I think that’s the right way to go.

“So you have to test and go and see. If you are under 15 you are legal.”