Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan cricket coach and former professional cricketer. Averaging over six wickets per Test match, he is one of the most successful bowlers in international cricket. He became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007. He retired from Test cricket in 2010, registering his 800th and final wicket on 22 July 2010.
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Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan cricket coach and former professional cricketer. Averaging over six wickets per Test match, he is one of the most successful bowlers in international cricket. He became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007. He retired from Test cricket in 2010, registering his 800th and final wicket on 22 July 2010 from his final ball in his last Test match. He was rated the greatest Test match bowler by Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack in 2002. In 2017 he was the first Sri Lanka cricketers to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. He married Madhimal Ramamurthy, a native of Chennai, on 21 March 2005. Their first child, Naren, was born in January 2006. He holds Overseas Citizenship of India and is a member of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board. His grandfather Periyasamy Sinasamy came from South India to work in the tea plantations of central Sri Lanka in 1920. He died at the age of 104 in July 2004, but his sons remained in Sri Lanka. His grandmother died one month earlier, aged 97, in Gunasekera, Tamil Nadu, India. His father runs a successful biscuit-making business. He is the eldest of the four sons to SinnasamyMuttiah and Lakshmi. He has a great relationship with Murali, his grandfather’s great-great-grandfather, and his great-grandmother, Dr S.
Malaram. He also has a daughter, Dr Nithya, who is the daughter of the late Dr Malararam and his wife Dr Sithya Ramurthy. His mother is a former Sri Lanka cricket captain and a former headmistress of St. Anthony’s College, Kandy. He took up off-spin when he was 14 years old. He began his cricketing career as a medium pace bowler but on the advice of his school coach, Sunil Fernando, he took upOff-spin. He soon impressed and went on to play for four years in the school First XI. In those days he played as an all-rounder and batted in the middle order. After leaving school he joined Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club and was selected for Sri Lanka A tour of England in 1991. On his return to Sri Lanka he impressed against Allan Border’s Australian team in a practice game and then made his Test debut at R. Premadasa Stadium in the Second Test match of the series. His action was cleared by the International Cricket Council, first in 1996 and again in 1999. As of December 2020 he has taken more wickets in Test matches than any other criceter. He held the number one spot in the ICC’s player rankings for Test bowlers for a record period of 1,711 days spanning 214 Test matches. He had previously held the record when he surpassed Courtney Walsh’s 519 wickets.
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