Murali to take on Australian coaching role

Legendary Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan to take guest coaching role at Australia’s top cricket academy.


Afp February 08, 2011
Murali to take on Australian coaching role

SYDNEY: Legendary Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan is to take a guest coaching role at Australia’s top cricket academy in a bid to revamp the nation’s spin hopes.

Muralitharan, the world’s leading wicket-taker in both Tests and One-Day Internationals, will spend several weeks at Cricket Australia’s (CA) Centre of Excellence for intensive training with the nation’s rising spinners, said the Daily Telegraph.

“This is a wonderful opportunity,” Australian selector Greg Chappell told the Sydney newspaper.

“Murali has probably forgotten more about spin bowling than most people will know in a lifetime.

“It is not just Murali’s obvious physical skill that will be a huge benefit for our young spinners in the team, it is also his physical toughness, his cleverness, his cunning and his ability to be able to set a batsman up and bowl 10-15 overs to a plan.”

The off-spinner’s technique would also be recorded and downloaded into the academy’s “virtual bowler” machine, allowing batsmen to square off against a cyber-Murali in the nets.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 9th, 2011.

COMMENTS (3)

D. Hair | 13 years ago | Reply WHAT!!! I will never give my permission for that (ASIAN) to come here and corrupt our youth! If I had it my way I'll send him back in a boat! What the hell does Chappell or the CA know! Once a chucker always a chucker. If you legalise one of them they come back with more nonsense - slingers, dilscoops... carrom balls. This is not how cricket should be played!! These (ASIANS) ruined me. I can't sleep at night... I wake up in a cold sweat each time Arjuna wags his finger... tell him to stop
Dilscoop | 13 years ago | Reply Yes :D what will Darrell do! I guess this will give him enough material to write another useless book! Wait for all the Aussies to blog their Chukkalitharan comments
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