Colombo, July 11: Sri Lanka is to honour its top wicket-taker, Muttiah Muralitharan by naming the country's main cricket academy after him, a press report said here today. The government decided on the naming to honour one of the most prolific wicket-takers in the modern game, the island newspaper quoted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as saying.
The champion off-spinner with 459 test scalps was given permission earlier this month by the cricket governing body's executive committee to play six weeks of county cricket with kent in england. Bureau Report.