Australia Afraid of Muttiah Muralitharan

As the forth day of Murali Warne Cup ends Sri Lanka is 246 for 3 wickets and lagging behind 260 towards the victory. Australia was 542 for their first innings and in reply Sri Lanka only gathered 246 runs. Then for the second innings Australian captain decided to declare their inning at 210 giving a target of 507 for the unpredictable lions.

The other main reason which made Ponting to declare was to stop Murali from breaking Shane Warnes world record of 506 wickets. Muttiah is only 5 wickets behind from the world record.