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Muralitharan feclitated in chennai

Legendary spinner Muttiah
Muralitharan on Monday made it clear he would
hang up his boots only by 2013-14 as he felt fit
enough to continue and has offers from English
counties and would also like to play IPL. "I
think my body is good enough to play cricket for
another three years. I would like to play IPL
(Indian Premier League) and some county cricket
in England.I have received some offers but can?t
disclose them at this moment," he said during a
felicitation function got up by his IPL team,
Chennai Super Super Kings, here on Monday on his
taking a record 800 wickets. In an interactive
session with the media later, Muralitharan said
he would play for another three seasons and that
he had also agreed to Anil Kumble's offer to
join the Indian leggie in a venture. However, he
did not disclose the details of his venture with
Kumble and was also not specific on his
representing Sri Lanka in the 2011 World Cup.
"It is still too early. I want to see how I play
in the Champions League and then decide on the
World Cup," the 38-year-old Muralitharan said.
Sanjay Manjrekar, who anchored the function,
requested scribes before opening the floor for a
question answer session not to pose questions on
the alleged match fixing in Pakistan's ongoing
England tour. However, Muralitharan did answer a
question, saying it is for the Pakistan Board
and the English Cricket Board to deal with the
situation and decide. "These are only
allegations and I wouldn't like to comment on
these matters," he said.
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Muralitharan said off spinner Harbhajan Singh
has the best chance of reaching the 800 figure
mark, but that he could not predict whether he
would do so. "Harbhajan is only 29 and
statistically it is possible for him to reach
800. But it is up to the bowler and I can't
predict anything. You should have the hunger to
achieve anything," he said. Sanjay Manjrekar and
former India captain S Venkataraghavan hosted a
group discussion as part of the function. Tamil
Nadu cricketers of Chennai Super Kings -
Subramaniam Badrinath, Lakshmipathy Balaji,
Ravichandran Ashwin, Anirudha Srikkanth and
Shadab Jakati - and operations director V B
Chandrasekar recalled their experiences with
their famous colleague in IPL events.
Venkatraghavan, part of the famous Indian spin
quartet of yester years, showered praise on
Muralitharan and discussed the finer points of
spin bowling. Venkatraghavan presented
Muralitharan a Super Kings team shirt with the
number 800 printed on the back and the Sri
Lankan star immediately wore it on the stage.