Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer, born in 1972, who is the only bowler in history to take 800 Test wickets and has taken more wickets in international cricket than any other bowler, averaging over six wickets per Test match. He was part of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup and the team that shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy with India, and he held the International Cricket Council's number one ranking for Test bowlers for a record 1,711 days across 214 Tests. His unusual bowling action, caused by a congenitally bent arm, drew repeated challenges from umpires and critics but was cleared by the International Cricket Council after biomechanical analysis in 1996 and again in 1999, and he overtook Shane Warne as Test cricket's leading wicket taker on 3 December 2007.
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Career HighlightTook 800 Test wickets, retiring in 2010 1 Classification
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Why is Muttiah Muralitharan's surname also spelled Muralidaran?
He prefers Muralidaran because the Tamil letter த can sound like a t or a d.
His name was widely romanised as Muralitharan from the start of his career, but he prefers the spelling Muralidaran. The two spellings arise because the Tamil letter த can be pronounced as either a t or a d depending on its place in a word, and it is often written with the letters th to tell it apart from another Tamil letter, ட, which is a retroflex t or d. In 2007, when Cricket Australia unveiled the Warne-Muralidaran Trophy for Australia and Sri Lanka, he was asked how his name should be spelt, and a Cricket Australia spokesman confirmed that the spelling he gave was Muralidaran.
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Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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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.
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Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer.
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Muralitharan was a part of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup and the team which was joint-winners with India of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy.
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