Murali's 'doosra' legacy for Lankan cricket and unity
In a country that was cut up along ethnic lines, Muttiah Muralitharan was the poster-boy of Sinhalese-Tamil unity, writes Sutirtho Patranobis in the Hindustan Times
Akhila Ranganna
25-Feb-2013
In a country that was cut up along ethnic lines, Muttiah Muralitharan was the poster-boy of Sinhalese-Tamil unity, writes Sutirtho Patranobis in the Hindustan Times. Post-war,Tamil-dominated Jaffna, is beginning to see signs of a revival in cricket.
In the middle '70s and '80s as violence spread like forest fire in the north and east of Sri Lanka - where Lankan Tamils are in majority - cricket took the sad but inevitable backseat.
Post-war, a cricket revival has begun in Tamil-dominated Jaffna. I'm sure Murali would find a willing hand there to leave his "doosra'' legacy behind. And he could also do that in Sinhalese-majority Hambantota.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo