Cricket Thread III

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<!--QuoteBegin-rajesh_g+May 25 2004, 03:24 AM-->QUOTE(rajesh_g @ May 25 2004, 03:24 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--> Per some 12 year old kid just beginning his career in some town

<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->What ?? I m bowling *exactly* like Murali - what do you mean I chuck?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Here we go again..

http://sify.com/sports/cricket/fullstory...d=13489932

Lanka grooming a second Murali

Thursday, 03 June , 2004, 12:20

Colombo: Cricket officials have begun eyeing a 17-year-old school boy who has the potential to replace Sri Lanka's spin wizard and top Test wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan, Colombo based newspaper Daily Mirror , reported on Thursday.
Student Sameera Ranatunga, who hails from the same Kandy region where Muralitharan grew up, was being groomed by his school's cricket coach to follow the footsteps of the great man, and become a deadly off-spinner, the report said.

"The young off-spinner is showing much promise and turns the ball as much as Muttiah Muralitharan does, by following a similar action," the newspaper said.

Ranatunga, who is not related to Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup winning captain Arjuna, is being guided by the same coach who spotted Muralitharan's talent, when he was a schoolboy in Kandy, the paper said.