http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Muttiah-Muralitharan-c78157 In The Record Books
Muttiah Muralitharan, the right arm off break bowler of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in Galle from 18th to 22 July, 2010. He is the most successful bowler of test cricket as he took 800 wickets in a career of 133 test matches with an average of 22.72.
Muttiah Muralitharan is one of the greatest bowlers in Cricket History, during his 18 years tenure of playing international cricket he has gained various records in his name. Here is a look at a few of the records he has acquired over the span of his career.
Murali has firstly taken the most test wickets in cricket history; he has taken 800 test wickets during 18 years in which he played 133 test matches. This places him well above Shane Warne of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 who has 502 wickets in 356 ODIs.
He also holds the record for taking the maximum wickets (Tests, ODIs and T20 included) that is 1328 wickets (800 test wickets, 515 ODI wickets,11 T20 wickets). A record for taking the most ‘5 wickets in an innings’; he has achieved this feat 67 times more than Shane Warne who is second on the list with his 37 times.
Muralitharan has also gained a record for the most ‘10 wickets in a test match’’ he has done this 22 times and is the only player to have gotten 10 wickets against every test playing nation.
He is the fastest bowler to reach the 350,400,450,500,550,600,650,700,750 and 800th wicket mark in minimum test matches played. He is also the only player in the world of cricket who took 10 wickets in four consecutive matches (10 wickets per match), he repeated this achievement twice. He did it for the first time in 2001 against India, then http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757.
He is the only player who has taken 50 or more wickets against every test playing nation. He took the maximum wickets (112) against England in 16 test matches. Murali shares a record with the English bowler Jim Laker for taking take 9 wickets in an innings, twice. He is also the only one to take 7 wickets in an innings against the 5 test playing nations.
Murali has taken the most wickets as bowled outs (167) and Stumped out (47) in his career and shares the record with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anil-Kumble-c44737 for most caught and bowled (35). He had a wonderful combination bowler/fielder with Mahela Jayawardene , they both managed to prey 67 batsmen together.
He received maximum Man of the Series Awards 11 times in test cricket. He is also one of the six bowlers in test matches to have dismissed all eleven batsmen in a match. The others are Jim Laker, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Srinivasaraghavan-Venkataraghavan-c90835, Geoff Dymock, Abdul Qadir and Waqar Younis.
Murali took more than a 100 wickets on three different grounds, including the SSC ground in Colombo, Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy and Galle International Stadium in Galle. He is also the only bowler to take 75 wickets in a calendar year thrice, he done it in 2000,2001 and 2006. His last and most interesting record is his unique record of getting players out on duck the most time in (Tests, ODIs and T20). His record is 59 times, which is ahead of Courtney Walsh’s 54 times.
In recognition of all his records he has been awarded Wisden Player of the year twice in 2001 and 2006. Muralitharan has retired from Test matches and it is looking difficult for any newcomer to beat his long tally of records.
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