Warne ready to wave goodbye to Test record

Test cricket's top wicket-taker Shane Warne said Sunday he will have no regrets when rival spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan overtakes him at the top of the charts.Murali is currently on Sri Lanka's tour of Australia and is just nine short of breaking Warne's record 708 Test wickets."Good luck to Murali, the record doesn't really worry me," said Warne, who has retired from Test cricket but is in Hong Kong playing quickfire six-a-side cricket."It has been nice to hold the record for three or four years. I always played my style of cricket and the wickets were nice, but it is more about the spirit in which you play the game."I'd like to think I have been an entertainer in the 16 years or so I've been playing. I hope my legacy is that I've never given up, have always been competitive, and that people have enjoyed that. So the record is not the most important thing.""But," Warne added, "hopefully the Aussie batsmen can still make it a little bit hard for him."Murali, 35, and Warne, 38, both started their Test careers in 1992, but the Sri Lankan has only played in 113 matches, compared with the Australian's 145.In a coup for the Hong Kong Sixes, both the third and fourth all-time Test wicket-takers are also playing in the tournament -- Anil Kumble (566) and Glenn McGrath (563).Warne declined to respond to rumours he will play in either of the two rival money-spinning Twenty20 leagues being planned in India, but said more Sixes cricket would help promote the sport."It would be really good if we had a couple more weekends like this one," he said. "A Sixes event in a place like Dubai would be great to spread the word of cricket."The tournament, first held in 1992, produces frenetic cricket in which teams bat for only five overs each innings and every fielder has to bowl, apart from the wicketkeeper.It has a strong record of attracting the game's biggest names, with Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar and Andrew Flintoff all appearing in past years.And here is the rest of it.

Controversial pathology report on cricket coach Woolmer criticised

Controversial government pathologist Ere Sheshiah was criticized for not following usual global practices on the 10th day of an inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer.Monday's pressure came from from Jermaine Spence, the attorney representing the International Cricket Council, who questioned why anyone should accept his findings of wrongdoing in Woolmer's death.Sheshiah performed the post-mortem on Woolmer, who was pronounced dead at the University of the West Indies hospital on March 18, hours after he was found unconscious in his Jamaica hotel room.Woolmer was discovered a day after Pakistan was knocked out of the cricket World Cup in embarrassing style by minnows Ireland.Sheshiah was criticized for not following international practice in the post-mortem by reviewing pathologists Lorna Martin of South Africa, Nathaniel Cary of Britain and Michael Pallanen of Canada, who studied video and photos.Sheshiah, who was the only person with access to the body, said under questioning that there are times when one can divert from global practice to satisfy themselves."The person who examines the bone can say whether it's broken or not, not somebody who analyzes a photo," he said.That led to lengthy questioning by Spence, who attacked the doctor's credibility, saying his findings were unreliable and wondering how anyone could accept his findings when he said the hyoid bone was fractured when it was not."I have already told the court of my opinion, so I am not deviating," Sheshiah replied.Sheshaiah originally had said Woolmer's hyoid bone was fractured, which indicated the former England player was strangled.But when given the X-ray in court last week, he admitted he made a mistake, then insisted the hyoid bone in a 58-year-old man don't have to be broken to prove that he was strangled.Sheshiah told the court last week regarding the cause of death that, "My final opinion is it was asphyxia, associated with cypermethrin poisoning."When police said they were treating the former England player's death as murder after Sheshiah's report, it sparked speculation that the case could be linked to corruption in international cricket.In June, however, Jamaican authorities said they were no longer treating the death as homicide.The inquest, presided over by coroner Patrick Murphy and 11 jurors, is expected to end on November 9. Testimony continues on Tuesday.