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This is what the Sri Lanken Cricket .....

At last it has happened!. Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan are not in the one day squad to tour the West Indies at the end of the month. Sanath, it is reported, has been axed from the team while Muralitharan is being rested.

According to a reliable source at Sri Lanka Cricket these decision were taken at a stormy meeting of the SLC Selectors held last night.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=9058

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=9058
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=8905

If any one want to read others comments,

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApUg2OjBrd_XRLnMBRMXMeNZxQt.;_ylv=3?qid=20080313061113AAfAOgV

We should protect our heroes

http://www.island.lk/2008/02/25/features1.html

Good article, But I am not agreeing with some of following comments,

In Sanath’s case the impact of age is of an entirely different order. His forearms and wrists, forged in a foundry in Matara have stood the test of time. It is an incontrovertible biological truth that age diminishes the speed of reflexes and the stamina to play a waiting game. A bowler is never undone by bowling one bad ball, but a batsman is always undone by one ball that is unplayable or one that he plays badly. He, therefore, needs fast reflexes as well as stamina to play a waiting game.

yes biological truths are there, but I do not think it affected to Sanath still.
As you can remember Mr Ranil Abenayaka has the same argument 2-3 years before. Sanath has completely undone it by performing well in the VB series (vs Australia) and the England tour. Actually he has given the replies to this kind of journalist with the two150s in the England tour.

Actually we should protects our heroes from this kind of journalist.

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