News on Sanath and Murali

The Team Management in South Africa confirms that Sanath Jayasuriya has recovered sufficiently to play against South Africa 'A' in a warm-up game scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday 23rd November). However, this would be confirmed only at this evening at 7.00 p.m (11.00 p.m. Sri Lanka time).

Meanwhile we have also got confirmation that Muttiah Muralitharan would be under-going surgery on Tuesday 26th November 2002. Dr. Peter Nottle (Leading Laprocopic Surgeon from Melbourne) will be the surgeon operating on him and will also monitor his recovery thereafter.

The well-known Dr. Peter Nottle was incidentally in Sri Lanka recently to train some Sri Lankan doctors on surgery.