Muttiah Muralitharan, cricket's leading Test and international wicket-taker, was born near which Sri Lankan city?

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Muttiah Muralitharan was born on 17 April 1972 in the village of Nattarampotha, Kundasale, near the hill-country city of Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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