Revealed: Muttiah Muralitharan was a Sri Lankan agent in the Australian camp

James Bond, Jason Bourne etc. are all renowned spies and don’t we all want to step into their shoes and lead the exciting lives? Well, Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan is one lucky man. During his playing days, he enjoyed tremendous success and now gets to lead a life of a spy. ‘Life of Spy’, that’s not a bad name for a book if Murali wishes to pen down his memoirs in the Aussie camp. Also Read: Nathan Lyon calls Sri Lanka “home bully”?

Murali’s appointment as Australia’s bowling consultant ahead of their series in Sri Lanka created a furore in Sri Lanka. The fans couldn’t believe that Murali was helping the rival nation. But was he? Not according to our source in Colombo.

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A few days back, Murali was dining at Ministry of Crabs (owned by Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara) with Sanath Jayasuriya, the duo were overheard conversing by our source. Also Read: Rangana Herath’s hat-trick floors Australia; sets Twitter abuzz

Jayasuriya was clearly disappointed with his ex-teammate joining the rival camp. Our Sri Lankan source gives the account of the conversation after translating it from Sinhalese.

Sanath Jayasuriya (SJ): Murali, how could you betray us?

Muttiah Muralitharan (MM): Ille. Do you think I will ever do that? That too, Australia? (Smiles rolling his eyes)

SJ: Ha? But aren’t you close to David Warner, your IPL student for SRH?

MM: Warner does not need any mentoring. Anyways, Spin consultant? Whatever that means. It pays well plus I ended up teaching the Aussie spinners wrong stuff and misguided them on how to play Rangana. These Aussies called me ‘chucker’, they booed me when we played there and made my life miserable. The best way to get back at them is to help Sri Lanka win Warne-Muralitharan Trophy for the first time.

I have secretly passed on all my notes to Rangana, Dilruwan and Sandakan.

SJ: (with tears in his eyes) A true Lankan despite all the brickbats. You are a true Lankan soldier!

Both then stood up and sang ‘Sri Lanka Mata’, their national anthem.

Murali’s notes surely has helped Sri Lanka, who are eyeing another Test win against Australia, whose Achilles Heel’s — spin has been exposed.

Please note this is a humour article — work of pure fiction