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Muralitharan's one-man demolition effort provided England a deflating end to the summer and brought home the stark truth that spin bowling is becoming an acute embarrassment for them. The famine of home-bred slow bowling is one thing, but the hunger pangs are made even more acute when opponents are feasting themselves.

England literally played into Muralitharan's hands when their batsmen refused to make use of their feet and preferred to play him from the crease which allowed Ranatunga to set attacking fields for his key spinner.