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All eyes on the Catapult Kids

Robert Craddock writes in The Australian about “the Catapult Kids” – Shaun Tait and Lasith Malinga

Robert Craddock writes in The Australian about “the Catapult Kids” – Shaun Tait and Lasith Malinga. The pair met for the first time before the Australia-Sri Lanka game, but their opening on-field exchange was ruined by Malinga's ankle injury.

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The cricket world - Tait included - marvels at Malinga's round-arm action, which he developed playing rubber ball cricket in the dusty back streets of his home town of Galle.

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Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo