If they're lucky they might get a Kumble or a Bedi around the time. Warne and Murali are both, naturally, once-in-two-or-three-generation type bowlers (or twice, as we've oddly got with those 2 at the same time
) though of course Murali might very well be a once-in-history bowler.
In any case, I genuinely think Murali could go on for another 3 or 4 years at least. I honestly do hope and think it is a realistic prospect that he gets 1,000 Test wickets - better still would be 1,000 in
deserving Tests (ie, not Bangladesh, post-WC2003-Zimbabwe and ICC WXI matches).
He's bowled no worse in this Test, accuracy-wise, than ever, and though he doesn't seem to be spinning it as he was a year ago (that evident both in Australia and here) he's still more than capable of being every bit as effective despite that, at least in Sri Lanka, it seems. Although this is hardly The Ritz of a batting-line-up (more of which I'll probably comment on tomorrow after the tail is blown away).
And even without him they've been more than competetive - he was once described, accurately IMO, as "the difference between Sri Lanka being a good team and a very good team".