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'It's harder sans Murali'

AFP, Darwin
Sri Lanka face a difficult task dismissing Australia without world record wicket-taker Muttiah Muralitharan, captain Marvan Atapattu said here on Sunday.
Muralitharan, with a worldrecord 527 Test wickets, last week announced he would boycott the Australian tour for personal reasons after Australian Prime Minister John Howard had called him a "chucker".
"I'd love to have him here but he's made a personal decision and we have to wear it," Atapattu told reporters upon the team's arrival here on Sunday.
"But it is going to be hard to take 20 wickets without him.
"When we are on the field he takes most of the burden, bowling 40 to 50 overs in an innings.
"Playing without him is difficult and unusual. The whole team will miss him. But it is a big challenge for every one of us to come out with better performances."
He added: "This is one occasion where we can show gratitude towards him by performing well."
Sri Lankan coach John Dyson
said he accepted Muralitharan's absence, saying the bowler had been through "a traumatic couple of months" since being cited for an illegal action by English match referee Chris Broad at the end of the March home series against Australia.
He went through a series of tests before the International Cricket Council declared his "doosra" delivery illegal.
Muralitharan, whose unorthodox action has led to him being noballed for 'throwing' in the past, came under fresh scrutiny because of the 'doosra', a delivery which spins away from right-handers instead of coming into them a like normal off-break.
The spinner was told in April he could face a 12-month ban if he persisted with the 'doosra'.
"He feels he's not ready to play these Tests and from that point of view I respect his decision," Dyson said.
Atapattu balked at criticisms levelled at Murali by Shane Warne, who called him thin-skinned, and Dennis Lillee, who said Murali's absence was a cop-out.
"We respect his decision and the whole team backs his decision," Atapattu said.
Sri Lanka manager Ajit
Jayasekera also took exception to a reporter who asked if Murali's decision to withdraw was made in order to protect his impressive statistics -- 527 wickets at an average 22.76 in 90 Tests.
"It's not fair to say that," Jayasekera said. "He's got wickets against weak nations as well as strong nations -- he took 28 wickets in the last series against Australia."
While none of Sri Lanka's other spinners bothered Australia in the recent 3-0 series triumph in Sri Lanka, Atapattu was hopeful one of the other tweakers -- such as Upul Chandana or Rangana Herath -would step up to the mark.
"Hopefully there will be another spinner who will grab his slot and perform well," Atapattu said.
"If we get a turning track I think those two (Herath and Chandana) should be able to deliver the goods."
While Australia has not suffered a home series defeat for more than decade, Dyson wasn't prepared to hand the series to the home side.
"We can put Australia under enormous pressure," Dyson said.
"While they won the series in Sri Lanka 3-0, in every one of the those games they were under pressure and had to do something special to pull out of it.
"There will be other times when they will be under the same pressure and don't do enough and we have to be ready to take our chance when that happens."
Sri Lanka's tour starts with a warm-up game against a Northern Territory Chief Minister's XI starting on June 24 before two Tests in Darwin and Cairns from July 1.