London: "I'm very surprised because number one is a great honour and I don't rank myself so high," Muralitharan, 30, told an Australian agency in Brisbane on Friday. "What I have gone through shouldn't happen to any other bowler, whether it be Brett Lee or Shoaib Akhtar. It is very hard to keep going when everyone is looking at you all the time but everything is past and gone," he added

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