Here comes Murali... the pace bowler?

Shut your eyes and try to imagine Muttiah Muralitharan steaming in, bowling pace. Given he's taken nearly 700 Test wickets with his off-spin, it's not too easy, is it. And yet he started life as a pace bowler, as revealed in the Courier Mail, which also tells the story of his conversion to the spin which has made him famous, and brought him to the brink of the world record for most Test wickets.

Muttiah Muralitharan can expect a rough ride [in Australia] despite calls for respect, writes Gideon Haigh in the Guardian.