Stick this trophy back in the cupboard
Creating a Warne-Muralitharan Trophy was a mistake from the start, writes Greg Baum in the Age .
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Creating a Warne-Muralitharan Trophy was a mistake from the start, writes Greg Baum in the Age.
The Warne-Murali trophy is a marketing ploy, the latest instance of sport's compulsion to present stuff. It's a photo opportunity. Its provenance shows it. One of the enshrined has only just retired, the other is still playing. Not nearly enough time has elapsed for proper appreciations of their relative deeds and standings to be made, let alone the tension between them resolved. The portents are not good. Warne and Murali are fundamentally and congenitally estranged.
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Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here