Excuse me Murali, how do you spell your name?
Dinesh Weerawansa of the Daily News , the Colombo-based daily, writes about how he cycled all the way to a school ground meet a young Muttiah Muralitharan, to get a clarification on how his name was spelt.

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It was a less important inter-school game between Maris Stella College, Negombo and St.Anthony’s College, Katugastota. But I had a person to meet, of course without an appointment. He was a young cricketer who was a member of that St. Anthony’s side. Having joined the ‘Daily News’ as a cub reporter, I was in-charge of school cricket since 1987.
Ashok Ganguly is an editorial assistant at Cricinfo