Jagath Perera
MUMBAI: Rangana Herath has urged Sri Lanka’s cricket administrators to be patient with the current crop of spinners as they struggle to fill the void left after his retirement in 2018, the left-arm wizard told Reuters.
Sri Lanka boast two spinners in the top 10 in the list of the most successful bowlers in test cricket, with Muttiah Muralitharan leading the tally with 800 wickets and Herath placed 10th.
Herath is the most prolific left-arm spinner in the world with 433 test wickets and spearheaded Sri Lanka’s bowling attack after Muralitharan’s retirement in 2010 until the end of 2018.
Sri Lanka have lost three of four home tests since Herath hung up his boots with visiting teams increasingly becoming more adept at thwarting the threat of their spinners in helpful conditions…