Will Murali tour?

[GoEagles]

Hernia surgery for Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan before next month's triangular one-day cricket series in Australia will rule him out of playing here.

Team management favours immediate medical treatment to ensure Muralitharan is fit for next year's World Cup to be held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.

The Sri Lankan cricket board today officially announced Muralitharan has a hernia and could miss the tour of Australia.

"We know that he has hernia problem. The issue is how serious it is," said Charnika Munasinghe, a spokeswoman for the sport's national governing body. He will have more medical tests, and "when he will undergo surgery will depend on the findings," she said.

Muralitharan first reported hernia problems during the first Test in South Africa last week, but Munasinghe said the champion spinner wasn't in much pain and would compete in the second Test against South Africa before going home.

Any surgery would be pre-emptive, but would rule Muralitharan out of the limited overs series in South Africa and the subsequent three-nation tournament in Australia against England and the world no.1 Australians.

Source: BaggyGreen

Do you think Muralitharan should come to Australia for the ODI series, or with the world cup next year should focus on being ready for that event?

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

I heard about an hour ago that he had pulled out. Not 100% sure if it is true though. Since there are no tests involved, I can't see him being to concerned missing the ODI's & Daryl Hair.

 

[macca23]

Originally posted by Kane McGoodwin
I heard about an hour ago that he had pulled out. Not 100% sure if it is true though. Since there are no tests involved, I can't see him being to concerned missing the ODI's & Daryl Hair.

Is Murali available to tour?? I would have thought that with that action every darts team or javelin club in the world would be after his services!!

 

[DaveW]

Wimp.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Two umpires have called him for chucking, and I know for a fact that several other umpires have also reported him for a suspect action. International referee Barry Jarman has reported him to the ICC on more than one occasion for chucking.
Everybody involved in cricket knows the guy is cheating, why has nothing been done? Jarman feels it is far too political and the ICC is simply too frightened to penalise chuckers.
So Muri can just throw to his heart's content, cheat about 600-700 test wickets, and become the greatest test wicket taker in the game's history. And that is when I lose interest in Test Cricket forever.

 

[Darky]

If you bowl half your side's overs, you'll get wickets.

When the throwing controversy came up on the 1996(?) SL tour here, I remember a media commentator writing that Muralitharan could have been bowling/throwing from both ends and it wouldn't have mattered, because he couldn't friggen buy a wicket against the Aussies.

 

[Haggis McHaggis]

I hope not.. dirty little chucker should have been banned years ago.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Murali isn't too injured to stop him playing the Proteas in the current test, so sounds more like at excuse not to come to Australia & meet up this buddy Daryl again...

 

[Richie Benaud]

Mutiah will probably be a bit flat after the tough tour of South Africa and could do with a rest so he will be all pumped up come time for the World Cup next year.

 

[Minkus_Swan]

I hope he does tour, so I stand up with everyone else and chant NO BAAAALLLLL - every single delivery of his 10 overs