Last Wednesday the Hindustan times , the leading Indian newspaper reported as “Sri Lanka’s hopes of clinching the one-day series after losing the Test and squaring the T20 series, suffered a setback when Muttiah Muralitharan and medium-pacer Dilhara Fernando were sent home with finger injuries”. According to the sources Murali injured his ring and middle [...]
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 [...]
Perhaps the story of the series so far has been the ease with which the Sri Lankan spinners have been countered by the Indian batsmen. A mountain of runs in the first two Tests has been in stark contrast to the plight of the Indian batsmen when Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis tormented them in [...]
Muttiah Muralitharan will be hoping the bowlers get more favourable conditions when Sri Lanka face India in the second test from Tuesday after a flat pitch consigned the first to a high-scoring draw. The 37-year-old Sri Lanka spinner, 14 short of extending his world record test wicket haul to 800, claimed just three wickets in [...]
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 [...]
Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal said Saturday that Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan took a lot of interest in his ‘doosra’ delivery. Ajmal was quoted as saying that he had exchanged tips with Muraltharan during the just-concluded tour of Sri Lanka, saying that it was really useful for him. “We had a few chats, it [...]
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