Muttiah Muralitharan Creates New Record with 800 Wickets in Tests

Muttiah Muralitharan Creates New Record with 800 Wickets in Tests

Muttiah Muralitharan Record : Muttiah Muralitharan will retire from Test cricket with 800 wickets of its name, after having deposited the two wickets he needed to reach the cap on the final day game against India in Galle.

For a player who has put daylight between his own wicket taking record, and his nearest rival, retired leg-spinning great Shane Warne, 708 Test scalps, is an understandable emotion.

But as preparations for the 38-year farewell time came, there was a goal which was still within reach of Murali and he became the first bowler in Test history to take 800 wickets to during his career. He entered the game need eight more wickets to.

When Sri Lanka 520-run first innings was finally declared the third day of the match, Muralitharan got his chance to board more than write his name in the record books again and made the best of him, like his 67 th five wicketTest haul of his career, plays a crucial role in Sri Lanka dismissed .

India for just Follow the 276th were then applied, and strains on four days, had Murali took six wickets match, leaving two less than the magic numbers. When the game resumes on the fifth day, Muralitharan Doosra showed him the number of weed test799, as Harbhajan Singh was trapped on the pads for eight.

Muttiah Muralitharan Creates New Record with 800 Wickets in Tests

But Slinger Malinga Lasith be dangerous in the second innings of his first Test cricket since December 2007 and taking a five-wicket haul of his own in India, and who tried to spoil the party, the only Final remained elusive for Murali threatened.

Pragyan Ojha delivered to the edge Mahel Jayawardena first slip as India all out for 338, target 95-run Sri Lanka Muralitharan to ensure he won at the end of his Test career.