Murali picture at Lord's
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A portrait of Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan is
unveiled by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London. The
portrait comes hours after Muttiah Muralitharan became Test
cricket’s leading wicket-taker. The specially commissioned
oil-on-canvas painting is six feet tall by three-and-a-half feet
wide, making it one of the larger exhibits to hang at Lord’s,
the London home ground of MCC and known to many of the game’s
followers as ‘the home of cricket’. AFP
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Just hours after Muttiah Muralitharan became Test cricket's leading
wicket-taker, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) announced Monday it had
unveiled a portrait of the Sri Lanka off-spinner at Lord's.
The specially commissioned oil-on-canvas painting is six feet tall by
three-and-a-half feet wide, making it one of the larger exhibits to hang
at Lord's, the London home ground of MCC and known to many of the game's
followers as 'the home of cricket'.
Many cricket greats have had their portraits displayed at Lord's,
including batting legends Sir Donald Bradman, Vivian Richards and Brian
Lara, as well as Shane Warne, the man whose record Murali broke on
Monday.
Muralitharan, 35, went past the 708 mark of now Test-retired
Australia leg-spinner when, on his home ground in Kandy on Monday, he
bowled England's Paul Collingwood on the third day of the first Test.
LONDON, Tuesday (AFP)
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