Magnificent Murali

[Mr. Wicket]

Murali this series v. Australia: 96 overs this series, 8 maidens, 310 runs, 3 wickets. Strike rate of ouch - 32 overs per wicket, average of 103.3 runs per wicket. :hysterical: Wonder if he has statements to make to the media now about how he's going to play down under. Or have Phil Jaques, Hussey and Clarke beaten him into silence with Gilchrist's brace of sixes providing the icing on the cake?

[DesiChap]

No wonder Murali does not want to play in Australia :haha:

[Dhoni's English]

Murali this series v. Australia: 96 overs this series, 8 maidens, 310 runs, 3 wickets. Strike rate of ouch - 32 overs per wicket, average of 103.3 runs per wicket. :hysterical: Wonder if he has statements to make to the media now about how he's going to play down under. Or have Phil Jaques, Hussey and Clarke beaten him into silence with Gilchrist's brace of sixes providing the icing on the cake?

Bl-oody aussies are just too good, even without Warne, McGraph etc...

[Tapioca]

This is pretty good by his standards in Australia. He had played two Tests for Sri Lanka in Australia (plus one for ICC World XI) and had figures of 2/224 and 1/124.

[King]

I now wonder if he can reach Warne's tally. This series has really dented Murali's reputation quite badly. I don't rate him too high anymore.

[Sooda]

From Cric.. Figures of 1 for 140 don't reflect the problems he gave the batsmen. In both Tests he worked on first- and second-day surfaces and still created discomfort for the Australians, who were willing to attack him in bursts but generally preferred caution. Only Ricky Ponting has been fallible, giving him two of his three wickets in the series, and Murali must be the only bowler in the world to want more overs at him.

[sm332]

I now wonder if he can reach Warne's tally. This series has really dented Murali's reputation quite badly. I don't rate him too high anymore.

are you serious Ravi?

[RockStar]

From Cric.. Figures of 1 for 140 don't reflect the problems he gave the batsmen. In both Tests he worked on first- and second-day surfaces and still created discomfort for the Australians,

Very true. And srilankan fielding has also not been upto the mark especially the slip fielders..In the first test he should have had 4-5 wickets had the fielders not droped those catches..

[Bumper]

Add another 20-0-90-1 spell to his glorious exploits Down Under. Some pasting this!

[Mr. Wicket]

I love the timing of Ponting's declarations. He declared in the first innings after Murali's run tally had just gone up to 300+ for the series (with Gilchrist taking him for 2 consecutive sixes) - when he declared here, Murali had conceded exactly 400 runs for 4 wickets. But as sooda will tell us, he of course had Australia in all sorts of trouble, caused problems non stop (especially with that strike rate of 174 and e/r of 3.44), came this close to taking a series of five-fors (just four wickets away in his last two innings) and was handicapped by not having a slow Galle turner to help him out. Poor man.

[Guest BossBhai]

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[Bumper]

Atleast it was not against the Mighty BD ehhhh Bumps :hysterical: http://www.indiancricketfans.com/showthread.php?t=67548 :eyedance:

Actually i love both these threads. IMO, neither of these gits deserve more respect than our own Jumbo. Its a win-win situation for me:haha:

[Ijlal]

Kaneria got 15 wickets in 3 tests in Aus in his last tour.