Freakish Murali Is No Match for Warne's Poetry in Motion

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SHOULD I feel more excited than I do about Muttiah Muralitharan taking Shane Warne's Test wickets record? For me, Murali is a freak, his bent arm and double-jointed wrist giving him advantages that still smack of illegality, while Warne, though he may be a scally, has a bowling action that is poetry in motion.

And off the pitch he's a laugh, at least if you are not married to him. A friend still dines out on a story about entertaining the Aussies to drinks. Warne came in and greeted his host warmly: "G'day, mate. Where's the grog?" The thing is there can never be another Muralitharan because the design defects that make him possible are unlikely to recur.

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Freakish Murali Is No Match for Warne's Poetry in Motion

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