Muttiah Muralitharan declare his retirement from international cricket

Muttiah Muralitharan, the king bowler in Cricket history, has declared that he would go retire after 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup that will be star from February.

He is one of controversial figure for his bowling history in cricket history. But he could overcome everything with his passion and hard work. His best achievement, he has earned the title of most test cricket holder. On Saturday, he has public his retirement plan.

The Sportal  wrote:

"We have been a great side for last three years and last year was a phenomenal year for CSK because we won the IPL and Champions Trophy," he said.

"But unfortunately as retention you can hold only four players and you have to auction some players."

"Depending on how the owners want to buy the team (I will stay). It's sad for the players but rules have been written, so you can't change."

"I hope that they might buy me back otherwise I will play for whichever team pick me and I will be loyal to them."

Cricket fans knowns that Murali already been retired form Test Cricket. But he is dominating short formatted cricket tournament in Indian Premier League. He use to play on the side of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

38 years old, picked up 515 wickets from 337 ODI cricket tournaments and 94 from 72 matches in Twenty20. 

Muttiah Muralitharan is the most wicket taker in the world

During the 4^th ODI against India, Sri Lankan top spinner M. Muralitharan has achieved the title of top wicket taker of ODI in the world. By dismiss Indian opener G. Gambhir. R Premadasa Stadium in now a history in for world cricket that watch the most wicket records. Previously, Pakistan left-arm fast bowler Wasim Akram was this record holder of 502 wickets.

On 05 February 2009, the 4^th ODI was held at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo. To touch the most wicket taker title Muttiah Muralitharan had to play 328 matches. On the other hand Wasim Akram achieved 502 wickets from 356 matches. To pull off the 503 wickets, he took 4 wickets 14 times and 5 wickets 10 times and his best bowling was 7/30.

Indian opener G. Gambhir was that lucky wicket for Muttiah Muralitharan to over take the Wasim Akram.

After winning toss India elected to bat first. India lost an early wicket of V Sehwag. Captain MS Dhoni and G. Gambhir’s partnership helps India to build a strong sore. MS Dhoni scored 94 from 140 balls. And G Gambhir sored 150 runs from 147 and felt in to the trap of Muttiah Muralitharan’s spin.

Ten Spin Bowlers in the Word

There are many spin bowlers in the crick world. Many of the has taken rest from international cricket and some has let. Among them, Jim Laker, Shane Warn, Anil Kubmle, Muralidharan popular.

Anil Kumble is an Indian leg-spinner bowler and an Indian cricketer who is the highest wicket-taker in both One Day International and Test matches. He was born in Bangalor of India. He was appointed as test captain for Indian team on 8 November 2007. He was appointed in this post instead his state team mate Rahul Dravid, who resigned his own self from the post of captain in September 2007.
He made his debut in ODI cricket against Sri- Lanka at Sharja in the Australia Cup on 25 April 1990 and made test debut in the same year on India’s tour of England in the 2nd test.
Recently he is the third highest wicket-taker in the world in test cricket taking 599 wickets by playing 123 matches. He has taken 330 wickets in ODI cricket by playing 271 matches. Anil Kumble took retirement from ODI cricket after finishing the last World Cup cricket in 2007. It is a great achievement of Kumble that he is one of only two bowlers who has taken all 10 wickets in an innings in ever test cricket history. And other one is Jim Laker of England. He has been selected man of the series for 4 times in ODI cricket and 1 time for test cricket till now. And also he has been selected man of the match for 10 times in test cricket and 6 times for ODI cricket.
Best ODI Bowling: 6 wickets for 12runs, Best Test Bowling: 10 wickets 74 runs, Best ODI Batting: 26, Best Test Batting: Unbeaten 110.

Harbhajan Singh is an Indian cricketer and is an important off spin bowler in the cricket world. He made his ODI Debut against New Zealand in Sharjah and test debut against Australia at Bangalore in 1998. Habhajan Aingh is an attacking minded bowler and has good control the ball. He can maintain the line and length in bowling. Sometimes he has been charged for his bowling action. At first he was criticized after his ODI debut for his bowling action. Then he was out of team for some months. However, again he got call for Indian team mainly for the request of then Indian skipper Sourv Ganguly for Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.
Harbhajan Singh established himself in newly in team India by taking 32 wickets with a hat trek and become the first Indian hat trekker in test cricket. However, after different injury and criticize he reclaimed his inconsistent position from 2004. In his cricket life, he selected man of the series for 2 times and man of the series for 5 times in test cricket. And in ODI cricket, he selected man of the match for 3 times. It is called a good performance. Now he is in 26 (+) years old.

Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972, in Kandy, Sri Lanka), nick name Murali is a Sri Lakan greatest off spinner. He is now highest wicket taker in test cricket by taking more than 723 wickets. In ODI cricket he has taken 455 wickets. He has made this record on December 3, 2007 overtaking the Australian spinner Shane Warne’s highest wicket taking record. Also, he is the only one cricketer in the world who took 1000 wickets in both ODI and test cricket. He is the highest wickets/match ratio (6.1) among the bowlers who have taken more 200 wickets.
Murali made test debut against Australia at Khettarama Stadium on 28 August 1992 when he was at the age of 20 years and made ODI debut against India at the Khettarama Stadium on 12 August, 1993.
Over all, his carrier was not without controversy, many times he has been charged with his bowling action by the authority. However, he became discharge from the claim by different tests. At first he was an off break bowler then changed it into fast topspin. At last ‘doosra’, a unique delivery which turns from leg to off. This unique action is a huge of his bowling action.
Murali has got a huge number of awards in his cricket life. He was selected man of the match in ODI for times and selected man of the series in test cricket for 11 times.
Best test bowling: Best test batting: 67, Best ODI bowling:, Best ODI batting: 99

Monty Panesar, full name Mudhsuden Singh Panesar ( born 25 April 1982 in Luton of London ) is an English cricketer. He is a left-arm spinner, plays with a classical bowling action in both ODI and test cricket for England. He is the first Indian hereditary Sikh who leads a nation other than India in test cricket.
He made his ODI debut against Australia at Melbourne on 12 January 2007 and test debut became on January 2006 in Nagpur of India. Monty Panesar is another player of England after Phil Tufnell who hauls 10 wickets in a test match. Panesar is a great cricketer for England team because in this short time his performance incredible from his entrance in international cricket till now. His age is now 25.
Best bowling in ODI: 3 for 25, Best bowling in test: 6 for 129, Best batting in ODI: 13, Best batting in test: 26

Mohammad Rafique is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He is a slow-left-arm orthodox bowler and a regular face for Bangladesh team. He is one of only two Bangladeshi bowlers whose position in 25 top list of ICC ODI bowling ranking now.
Mohammad Rafique Rafique is a dependent wicket taker for Bangladesh in both ODI and test cricket. He is also a lower order hot hitter batsman of Bangladesh team. He is the only Bangladeshi players who have taken 100 ODI wickets and have scored 1000 runs.
He made his test debut against India at Dhaka, Bangladesh in2000, where he took 3 wickets. He is the highest test wicket taker of Bangladesh against England, scored a test century against Zimbabwe.
He was accused his suspect bowling action to the ICC, after it he was out of the team until 2002. Again he came back for the series against South Africa. Now he is the most senior player of Bangladesh team.

Daniel Vettori was born on 27 January 1979 in New Zealand. Now, he is the skipper of New Zealand cricket team and is a slow left-arm dependent bowler.
Daniel Vettori made his debut in test cricket in 1996-1997 when his was 18 at wellington on 6 February against England. And his ODI debut happened after a month of his test debut against Sri Lanka at Christchurch on 25 March, 1997.
Recently his ICC ODI bowling rank is 3. Vettori have scored 2 test centuries as well as many half centuries. He is also an all rounder cricketer. Vettori took 10 wickets in 3 times in a test innings against Sri Lanka, Australia and Bangladesh.
Best bowling in test: 12 for 149, Best batting in test: 137

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi is a Pakistani cricketer. He is on of the most popular cricketer in Pakistan and is known as Boom Boom Afridi for his aggressive batting. He is known as hard hitter batsman and a leg spin bowler in the cricket world. He performed the fastest ODI century by 37 balls in the cricket history. Also he performed four times fastest half century twice in 18 balls and twice in 20 balls.
He made his ODI debut against Kenya in Nairobi on 2 October 1996, test debut against Australia at Karachi on 22 October 1998. His ODI strike rat is 109.38 per 100 balls that is the highest stick rate in the cricket game history. And his test strike rate is very nice that 86.13. Afridi is such a cricketer who can change the game motive in any moment. He is a dependent match winner cricketer for Pakistan. There is no such scandal against Afridi. He has a number of world records.

Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria, nick name Danish is a Pakistani cricketer. He is a leg spinner and an orthodox player for Pakistan can easily process the ball as googly and flipper. He made his ODI debut against England at Faisalabad in 2000.
Although there is no mentionable performance in his carrier yet he ha some well performance. Like – he took 7 wickets for 77 runs against Bangladesh during the Bangladesh’s tour of Pakistan in 2002 and also took 10 wickets against Sri Lanka at Karachi. Recently he performed well to win Pakistan’s against West Indies, England and India.
He is the second Hindu devotee after Anil Dalpat (they are cousin) to play test cricket for Pakistan.

Andrew Symonds is an Australian great cricketer who is West Indian and English heritage. He is an off spin bowler, also a most aggressive batsman of Australia. Moreover he is also an excellent fielder. Obliviously we can say him a great all-rounder.
He made his ODI debut in 1998 against Pakistan at Lahore. He would choose to play becoming of Australia than England, his birth place and West Indies. And he made his test debut against Australia in March 2004. In ODI match, his highest score is 156 and strike rate over 90 which are very excellent. In 2003 world cup final, when Australia at 86 for 4 then for his excellent guide Australia reached 310 for 8 where he scored 143*. Recently he scored his carrier highest test score 162* against India. And including this century totally he scored 2 century in his cricket life.
Best bowling in ODI: 3 Best batting in ODI: 162*, Best bowling in test: 5, Best batting in test: 156

Abdur Razzak is a Bangladeshi left-arm spin bowler. He is now an important cricketer for Bangladesh and his ICC bowling ranking position is 20. He made his debut in first class cricket at Bangladeshi domestic cricket on behalf of Khulna division in 2001-2002.
Performing well against Zimbabwe A, he was selected for Bangladesh A (training team for the full national squad). His best performance is 7 for 17.
First of all, Abdur Razzak’s debut became in Asia Cup One Day International against Hong Kong in 2004 for Bangladeshi national team. Now he is regular face in Bangladesh team although he was not regular from his starting time. And his test debut was happened in the 2nd test against Australia of the Australia tour of Bangladesh in April 2006.
Abdur Razzak was charged for his bowling action first on going Asia Cup in 2004 by then International Cricket Council match referee Roshan Mahanama, in 2004. However, lately he was discharge from this charge by a test immediately. Gradually he managed himself and become a regular fixture for national team.
Ranking: Abdur Razzak achieved at no. 8 position his carrier ever on the ICC rankings in ODI matches of current bowlers on 4 April 2007.
Best ODI Bowling: His best 5 for 33 against Zimbabwe, Bogra, 2006.
Best ODI Batting: His best 21 against India in Asia Cup, Colomboo, 2004.

Source: Wikipedia

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 116^th 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.