COLOMBO: After keeping mum for long, spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan today slammed his vocal critic Bishen Singh Bedi, calling the former Indian skipper an ''ordinary spinner''.

Murali, who bid adieu to the longer version of cricket after snaring 800 scalps, gave vent to his ire and asked Bedi to ''look at himself in the mirror''.

''What he has done can be achieved by any ordinary bowler in today's cricket,'' he told CNN IBN.

''The few hundred wickets he has taken is not a major feat, there are 30-40 bowlers today who have done that with ease.

He is making these comments on me because he wants to be popular,'' Murali said, adding that ''Bedi has never done anything for cricket''.

Bedi has been spewing fire against Muralitharan by repeatedly calling the Sri Lankan a ''chucker'' and asking the ICC to ban the Sri Lankan's ''doosra'' as it was illegal.

The bowler said, ''controversies have not affected me, rather they have made me stronger.'' ''There are people who criticise you every time, I don't care about them. Criticism is a big obstacle a cricketer has to pass and I have already passed them well.'' He also singled out Indian offspinner Harbhajan Singh as the one having the ''capability to break my record''.