Sri Lanka refuses to give up on Murali

Muttiah Muralitharan could still feature for Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20, according to captain Kumar Sangakkara, after officials said he’d been ruled out with a groin injury. A statement released by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) in Colombo earlier said the star off-spinner had been “advised to rest for two or three weeks” following a groin problem he suffered during the team’s two-wicket opening match defeat by New Zealand. That would rule him out of the rest of the World Twenty20. But Sangakkara, speaking after Sri Lanka’s 14-run, rain-affected, win over Zimbabwe here, said Muralitharan — whose place against the Africans was taken by 25-year-old off-spinner Suraj Randiv — would be given a chance to prove his fitness.   www.hindu.com/2010/05/05/stories/2010050551592000.htm