Muralitharan better than Warne
Australia face Sri Lanka in Grenada on Monday and the Murali factor is bound to play a part, according to Mark Waugh
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Australia face Sri Lanka in Grenada on Monday and the Murali factor is bound to play a part, according to Mark Waugh. In the Sun-Herald, Waugh writes that he found Muttiah Muralitharan even harder to face than Shane Warne.
Muralitharan is a far more dangerous bowler than when I last faced him a few years ago because the doosra is harder to pick, because he is bowling it quicker and with a trajectory similar to the offie.
Peter Roebuck pulls no punches in his column in The Sunday Age, where he calls the World Cup a debacle.
The tournament has been an abysmal failure. Far from representing all that is best in sport, it has exposed the greed and self-interest that have compromised supposedly healthy and periodically inspiring recreations.
In the Sunday Telegraph, Robert Craddock and Jon Pierik consider the negatives of Ireland reaching the Super Eights.
And back in the Sun-Herald, Will Swanton looks at Justin Langer’s recent comments that he found sledging a disturbing part of the game.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here