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Headline grabber Cameron uses his size 12 boots on the daffodils yet again .....he really should
engage tongue to brain,.....his error of judgments continue....
Did PM misread the spin in Sri Lanka? Island's cricket hero says David Cameron is 'misled' over Tamil north
The sport's greatest wicket-taker, Muttiah Muralitharan, said: 'I see there is improvement'
Sri Lanka's most famous cricketer and symbol of the country's post-civil-war reconciliation triggered acute embarrassment for David Cameron yesterday when he said that the Prime Minister had been "misled" over the plight of the Tamil people.
Mr Cameron's historic trip to the north of Sri Lanka on Friday, in which he became the first world leader to meet Tamil refugees and visited a newspaper whose journalists had been assassinated by government forces, prompted a showdown with the country's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, at the Commonwealth summit.
But criticism came from more unexpected quarters yesterday as Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka's most prominent Tamil and Test cricket's greatest wicket-taker, suggested undue attention was being given to the Tamil northern region.
Murali, as he is known to fans, met Mr Cameron at an event at Colombo Cricket Club to promote Foundation of Goodness, a charity that uses cricket to promote reconciliation between Tamil and Sinhalese populations. Speaking to reporters before he met the premier, Muralitharan bowled Mr Cameron a political googly when he said: "He must have been misled by other people. People speak without going and seeing the things there. I go on and off. I see from my eyes there is improvement.
"I can't say the Prime Minister is wrong or not. He's from England, he hasn't seen the site, he hasn't visited these places - yesterday only."
Muralitharan's charity is backed by Sir Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff, and runs games between teams from the north and south of the island.
The off-spinner, who retired from test cricket in 2010 with 800 test wickets, added: "My opinion is, there were problems in the last 30 years in those areas. Nobody could move there. In wartime, I went with the UN, I saw the place, how it was. Now I regularly go and I see the place and it is about a 1,000 per cent improvement in facilities.
