``If there was any concerns, Lloyd should have brought it to the attention of the ICC match referee and not the media,'' said Sri Lanka Cricket Board president Thilanga Sumathipala here today.
``I have brought it to the notice of the ECB. I want to know what concerns Lloyd has about the player. My chief executive has got in touch with Tim Lamb (the ECB chief executive). I don't know what will come out of it all,'' he said.
Lloyd questioned the bowling action of Muralitharan at the end of the fourth day when he said: ``The way he bowls and the action he has got, he will always be a handful. Our leg-spinner has an orthodox action, there man has an unorthodox action. He is the only bowler in this game to have benefitted from the surface''.
``Muralitharan has a different action from most bowlers. Ian Salisbury was spinning it as much as he could. I have my own opinions which I will make known to the authorities (match referee, match officials and ICC)'' said Lloyd.
Sumathipala said it was totally disappointing from the Sri Lankan public's point of view that Lloyd should have made such a remark.''This has been a successful tour upto now. Everything was positive and it's disappointing it's happened now,'' said Sumathipala.
``Muralitharan was not bothered about the remarks. It is one individuals opinion. What I am particularly concerned is the general reaction generated from the Australian press. We are due to go there next January. I don't want a repetition of what happened before,'' said Sumathipala.
He was referring to the last occasion Sri Lanka toured Australia in 1995-96, when Muralitharan was no-balled for throwing by Australian umpire Darrel Hair in the second Test at Melbourne. Since that harrowing incident, Muralitharan has been cleared on medical and scientific grounds and by the ICC.
Michael Henderson of 'The Times' had the final word on Salisbury when he wrote: ``The Thames will freeze over before (Ian) Salisbury becomes the bowler people want him to be and it is in everybody's interest to acknowledge that now before the lad becomes a complete laughing stock.
Salisbury is here under false pretences and he can now go back to tending his allotment, or painting fences, or whatever it is he does''.