Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan alleged his team was at the receiving end of many an umpiring howler during the Test series against India and asked the ICC to make Decision Review System (DRS) mandatory for all games. Muralitharan pointed to the Tillakaratne Dilshan’s dubious dismissal in both the innings of the third and final [...]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the rival camp’s captain, has defended the performance of Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan in last week’s first Test. A flat wicket saw the 37-year-old spinner, Test cricket’s leading wicket-taker, claim just three wickets in 63.5 overs in the high-scoring draw in Ahmedabad. “If you see Muralitharan was in the opposition side, he [...]
Sri Lanka’s top stars, including the world’s leading bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, want more Test matches to be played despite the growing popularity of Twenty20 cricket. The off-spinner, who has more Test (777) and One-day (511) wickets than any other bowler and will quit the five-day game at the end of 2010, said Test matches raised [...]
Mark Richardson, the former New Zealand Test opener, has reopened the question over Muttiah Muralitharan’s bowling action by saying that he was convinced many of his deliveries were well beyond the 15-degree allowance approved by lawmakers. Richardson said he did not blame Murali for the situation but felt the ICC was not doing enough to [...]
Muttiah Muralitharan has said New Zealand are unlikely to collapse the way Pakistan did last month in Galle because they were fighting hard and also because the pitch, covered for long hours because of rain, was yet to dry and break up. “What happened against Pakistan, we can’t expect New Zealand also to collapse,” Murali [...]
Muttiah Muralitharan has returned to Sri Lanka’s Test squad for the series against New Zealand after recovering from injury. However the selectors have retained his replacement left-arm spinner Rangana Herath as well as Ajantha Mendis. Wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene, who also missed the series against Pakistan because of injury, and his replacement Tillakaratne Dilshan were named [...]
National cricket selectors will recall Prasanna Jayawardene and Muttiah Muralitharan into the Sri Lanka squad for the two-match Test series against the visiting New Zealand team, sources said. Both Jayawardene and Muralitharan missed the just concluded three-match test series against Pakistan but both players have recovered from their injuries and will be automatic choices in [...]
Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan has said he will retire from Test cricket next year. Murali, who is the highest wicket-taker in Tests with 770 wickets in 127 Tests, announced that the two-Test home series against West Indies in November 2010 would be his last. Speaking at the end of the first ODI against Pakistan, [...]
espnstar.com’s Rajarshi Gupta caught up with former Sri Lankan skipper and batting legend Duleep Mendis. The Lankans created history last week when they won their first ever Test series against Pakistan at home and the protagonist was, surprisingly, not that wily, old fox, Muttiah Muralitharan. The Emerald Islanders, who have been such a force to [...]
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