honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Nah.. A LOT of ground fielding has to do with how quick you are across the turf and before the series of injuries circa 2000, Murali was just lightning quick across the turf. He did not have a great arm but he was quick and he stopped lots of twos just by getting to the ball fast. He was a good diver as well and I recall a no. of times in the 90s in sharjah games and other ODIs against India when it was almost impossible to beat him inside the circle near mid off or wherever... He was just brilliant in the field in the 90s, period. He was among the fab 4 that Sri Lanka had inside the ring at certain times, others being Chandana, Mahanama and Jayasuriya.. I would rank him joint 3 among that 4 with Jayasuriya.Muralitharan was a good catcher, and like many good catchers he pulled off some stunning catches. His ground-fielding was merely good, nowhere close to Chandana and particularly Dilshan. Dilshan is a world-class alround fielder, can field anywhere in the field, catches well, throws well. Muralitharan was not a natural athlete, but he did well due to good reflexes and his high confidence-level (which has always been a great quality of him). If anything, Murali was a good catcher; but he was not exceptional in ground fielding (fielding technique-wise) by any means. Anybody who thinks so is either being particularly foolish or simply stubbornly lying.
Anyways, firstly I'm not a multi-quote war specialist like Ikki and secondly fielding is not something where I can show some stat-points to prove my point. Just like judging wicketkeeping or captaincy, judging fielding is highly subjective. So, let's agree to disagree here.