Murali 'needs rest, not surgery' for injury

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COLOMBO, Aug 31 (AFP): Sri Lanka's star spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan believes he will need just rest not surgery for his nagging shoulder injury, his manager said Friday.
"He needs rest for about four weeks and physiotherapy," manager Kushil Gunasekera told the news agency.
The off-spinner will return to Colombo as scheduled Sunday from his English county duties at Lancashire and be examined by Sri Lankan team physio Tommy Simsek.
"The next course of action will depend on his (Simsek's) advice," Gunasekera said, adding that Muralitharan had told him over the telephone that rest was all he needed to regain fitness.
"He is said to be having a torn tendon on his right bicep," Gunasekera said.