Sri Lanka to name cricket academy after Murali

Sri Lanka have announced that the country's main cricket academy is to be named after Muttiah Muralitharan. Normally, retired and venerable players are given the honour of having roads, stands, stadiums or institutions named after them. But Muralitharan, Sri Lanka's highest wicket-taker, has been deemed worthy enough to be an exception to this unwritten rule.

The symbolic importance of this can be gauged from the fact the announcement was made not by a board official, but by prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe himself.