December 3, 2007

Muttiah Muralitharan is the Highest Wicket Achiever


Muttiah Muralitharan has achieved the record of highest wicket-taker in test cricket after breaking Shane Warne's record of 708 test wickets. Muttiah Muralitharan achieves this record dismissing Paul Collingwood during England’s first session in Kandy. Muttiah Muralitharan achieved this record in his 116th test matches.

Muttiah Muralitharan is a match winner cricketer. His ability to spin the ball was never in doubt at the moment when he entered Test cricket, but through most of the first half of his career, the turn was conventional making him a much easier bowler to undertake. The doosra, though, has added whole as a new dimension to his bowling, and made him excessive more dangerous proposition for opposition batsmen.

He drew level with Warne when he had Ravi Bopara caught down the leg side on the second afternoon, but was forced to wait for the crucial wicket through a mixture of rain, which forced the players off on Sunday afternoon, and stubborn English resistance. It took him until his 10th over of the day to squeeze out the cherished scalp as Collingwood and Ryan Sidebottom offered stubborn resistance. Finally, though, in his second spell of the day be bowled Collingwood with a doosra and the ground erupted.

Muttiah Muralitharan is a greater cricketer and the only bowler takes more than 50 wickets against ever opposition team he has played.

Muttiah Muralitharan is one of only six bowlers who have toke all the 11 wickets in a Test match. Jim Laker.The others are S Venkataraghavan, Geoff Dymock, Abdul Qadir and Waqar Younis.

The feature of Muttiah Muralitharan career, which has already extended more than 15 years, has been his exceptional reliability. In the last eight years, Muttiah Muralitharan’s average for each year has never gone beyond 23. The presence of another spin wizard in the same era has destined Muttiah Muralitharan 's numbers have always been compared with Shane Warne's. Warne was faster off the blocks than Muttiah Muralitharan, getting to 100 wickets in just 23 Tests, compared to Muttiah Muralitharan's 27, but since then Muttiah Muralitharan has got his wickets at a much faster rate in terms of dismissals per test.

Congratulation to Muttiah Muralitharan, you are great.