Muttiah Muralitharan at his biopic trailer launch: Dravid amongst all-time greats however he may by no means learn me

Rahul Dravid options in Muttiah Muralitharan’s record of nice batters who couldn’t discover a strategy to learn him.

Speaking at an occasion on Tuesday, the Sri Lankan legend mentioned whereas a number of Indian batters, together with Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, and Gautam Gambhir, learn his bowling, present India head coach Dravid didn’t.

“He (Tendulkar) read me very well. Not many people can do (that). (Brian) Lara had success, but he never hit me either,” Muralitharan mentioned throughout the trailer launch of his biopic titled ‘800’.

“I know a few people, like Rahul Dravid; he is one of the greatest players, but he never read me. Sachin (Sehwag) and Gambhir would read. Even in my team, some people read and some did not.”

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The legendary Tendulkar, who was current on the event, recalled his first assembly with the spin wizard. “I remember meeting him for the first time in 1992-93, and we have continued to be good friends.

“He just loved bowling and the whole world knew he had a big turner. You make him bowl on an expressway and he would turn the ball. No matter how the surface is.

“He had developed the ‘doosra’ but spent a lot of time practising it in the nets. For 18 months, he continued practising the ‘doosra’ in the nets before he bowled the first ball in international cricket. The reason for that was that he should not lose his original strengths and the qualities that he possessed,” Tendulkar added.

Muralitharan returned the praise.

“What he (Sachin) has done in cricket, nobody can do. It is a fact. It is impossible for someone to get into First Class cricket at 15 years, getting a Test hundred at 16-17 years (of age). Another Sachin Tendulkar won’t be born in my life (time),” Muralitharan added.