Under Aberhart, they pulled off a first-ever series win in the West Indies, home Test and one-day victories over India and a drawnTest series in Australia.
Petersen met with the Glamorgan squad for the first time this week, flying in after the culmination of the drawnTest series between South Africa and India, in which he averaged 34 runs.
Muralitharan made a modest international debut in August 1992 when he took four wickets in a drawnTest against Australia in Colombo, but he had already shown them he had the potential to become something special.