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Thousands of cricket-starved fans flocked to see demon spinner Muttiah Muralitharan on Sunday in an exhibition match in Sri Lanka's war-torn Jaffna peninsula.An estimated 15,000 people gathered at a field by a college partly destroyed by bombs to cheer on Muralitharan, a Tamil who is one of the most popular people in the country.
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