Muralitharan has joined Bengal’s Vision Twenty Twenty Camp Today . Courtsey – XtraTime[/caption]Kolkata : One of the greatest off-spinners of all time, the Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan gave an exclusive interview at CAB to Xtra Time regarding the upcoming India vs New Zealand series, future of vision twenty 20 & the great win of Sri Lanka against Australia in their home series.
XT : What is your thought regarding the upcoming India vs New Zealand Test Series as New Zealand have two good spinners like Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi?
Muralitharan : I think India has an edge because Indian spinners are far better than the other spinners and also the Indian batting line up knows how to play the spin. So definitely India has big advantage than New Zeland.
XT : How you look at this Indian Team under Virat Kohli’s captaincy?
Muralitharan : Kohli is been doing well and India is winning matches abroad , that’s what you want .
XT : One of your friends Anil Kumble is the coach of Indian Team, what’s your view regarding this?
Muralitharan : Anil is very knowledgeable and he knows what to do, and he is very clever so I think Indian Team will do well in Anil’s guidance and definitely they have a very good chance of winning the series not only against New Zealand , but also against England and Autralia in their next home serieses .
XT : What’s your thought regarding the Bengal bowlers before the upcoming Ranji Trophy Season?
Muralitharan : The bowlers are getting training from me in the last one and half years , they are getting better and better ,we want to make sure that they are very well prepared for Ranji Trophy .
XT : How you are hopeful that Bengal will bowl strong in the upcoming Ranji?
Muralitharan : Definitely they will do well in the Ranji Trophy, Ojha is heading the spin and there are many good fast bowlers also , so definitely there is a good chance this year because last year they didn’t do well so hopefully this year we can go further with the team and also try to coach the youngsters as well and make sure they also learn something from this and prepare them for the under 19 and under 23 tournament .
XT : This year Bengal played all their matches in the neutral vanue, what’s your thought regarding this?
Muralitharan : It doesn’t matter where they play, because neutral venue is better to play as you learn about other venues , wickets and play on those wickets as well .
XT : Last month Sri Lanka won the Test Series against Australia, What’s your view on this?
Muralitharan : They did well in test cricket , in ODI and T20 they didn’t do well as they are a young team. in spin friendly wickets definitely Australia didn’t play very well against spinners , Srilanka capitalized that weak point of the Australians and won the series, easy.
At first CAB stated the media that,” The vision twenty twenty camp will end on 19th of September”, but later they have extended the camp till 21st of September. They added,“ legendary batsman of Indian Cricket Team V.V.S Laxman will join the Camp on 16th of September.”
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