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DEBUT Muttiah Muralitharan’s first taste of international cricket came at the Premadasa in Colombo. Only 20 years old, he lined up against Allan Border’s Australia. So beguiling was the off-spinner that in a tour match that preceded the Test series, Border had been left swearing Muralitharan was a leg-spinner. And this was before he had the doosra in his arsenal. It was a quiet start for the Sri Lankan wizard, taking three wickets for the Test. His lone wicket in the first innings was that of Craig McDermott. No one could have foreseen that was the first of 800 he would claim in his Test career. STARRING IN A HISTORIC WIN Sri Lanka won an overseas Test for the first time in 1995, beating New Zealand in Napier by 241 runs, with two future greats at the heart of the victory. Chaminda Vaas took 5/47 to bowl New Zealand out for 109 in their first innings and backed it up with 5/43 in their second. But the seamer was not alone in his dismantling of the hosts, with Muralitharan taking 5/64 as New Zealand was bowled out for 185. They were crucial wickets too, with the offie accounting for five of New Zealand’s top seven. He removed Bryan Young early but the Kiwis’ pursuit of 427 was looking a distinct possibility as they reached 108/1. Muralitharan turned the match on its head from there, accounting for Mark Greatbatch, Stephen Fleming, Shane Thomson, and Adam Parore. WINNING THE WORLD CUP Twenty-five years on it remains the most iconic moment in Sri Lanka’s cricket history – the...

Batting Stats View All Game Type Mat Inn R BF NO Avg S/R 100s 50s H 4s 6s Ct St ODIs 350 162 674 869 63 6.80 77.56 0 0 33 50 12 130 0 TESTs 133 164 1261 1794 56 11.67 70.28 0 1 67 146 29 72 0 T20Is 12 2 1 5 0 0.50 20.00 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 T20s 164 38 81 110 14 3.37 73.63 0 0 11 3 2 31 0 LISTAs 453 205 945 0 76 7.32 null 0 0 33 0 0 159 0 FIRSTCLASS 232 276 2192 0 83 11.35 null 0 1 67 0 0 123 0 Bowling Stats View All Game Type Mat Inn O R W Avg E/R Best 5w 10w ODIs 350 341 3135.1 12326 534 23.08 3.93 7/30 10 0 TESTs 133 230 7339.5 18180 800 22.72 2.47 16/220 67 22 T20Is 12 12 47 297 13 22.84 6.31 3/29 0 0 T20s 164 164 617.3 3945 179 22.03 6.38 4/16 0 0 LISTAs 453 0 3955.4 15270 682 22.39 3.86 7/30 12 0 FIRSTCLASS 232 0 11155.3 26997 1374 19.64 2.42 null 119 34 Muttiah Muralitharan News Muttiah Muralitharan Biography Muttiah Muralitharan, born on April 17,1972 is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. Considered as one of the best test cricketers the game has ever seen, he was right arm off-break bowler. Over a span of 19 years on the field, he made an exceptional impact on Sri Lankan cricket through his unique, yet controversial bowling technique that led to his name being etched on several international record books. Background Muttiah is the first and only Tamil of Indian origin to represent Sri Lanka in international cricket. As a schoolkid, he practiced medium pace bowling. But he took up off-spin bowling when he was about 14 years old. His impressive performance earned him a solid s...

Back in the day, legendary Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was accused of “throwing” during two consecutive tours of Australia by the same set of umpires. Happening for the second time, the incident ended up becoming one of the greatest controversies ever witnessed in the sport. During the Benson & Hedges Series 1995-96, Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka were fighting a tough battle. In the seventh match between Sri Lanka and West Indies, Sri Lanka were bundled out for 102 in 45.2 overs after winning the toss. Nonetheless, this was not the only setback which the Sri Lankans received. During West Indies’ innings, umpire Tony McQuillan called Muttiah Muralitharan’s off-breaks as no-balls citing “throwing” as the reason. Muralitharan subsequently had to bowl leg-spin deliveries to complete his over. A 23-year old Muralitharan had to miss the rest of the tournament. ICC hired officials from the biomechanics sector to look into the matter. Muralitharan had to go through various tests and came back with a re-modelled action. Muttiah Muralitharan no-ball controversy Sri Lanka toured Australia for the Carlton & United Series involving host Australia and England in 1998-99. January 23, 1999, saw exactly what happened three years ago. The same duo of umpires in McQuillan and Ross Emerson again called Muralitharan for throwing. ALSO READ: But this time the Sri Lanka captain in Arjuna Ranatunga did not resort with the umpires. The fact that the ICC officials had cleared Mura...

Shane Warne's supremacy as one of the greatest bowlers of all time is testified by the fact that he is one just two bowlers in the history of Test cricket to take over 700 wickets. The only bowler to take more wickets than the Australia great, whose death stunned the world on Friday, was his own contemporary Muttiah Muralitharan, who ended his career with 800 wickets. Warne ended his career with 708 Test wickets.(REUTERS) While Warne ended his Test career with 708 wickets in 273 innings, Sri Lanka's Muralitharan reached the mark in 230 innings. The debate about who was the better bowler between the two has been raging since their playing days but Muralitharan had said that had he not played a few more years than Warne, the latter would have finished with more wickets. ALSO READ | 'Seemed unreal that I was going to play with such a legend': Jadeja remembers Shane Warne in emotional tribute "I was two or three years younger than him, so I was always going to play a little bit longer. and I always had that advantage. If he’d have played the same as me for both our careers, he would have got more wickets than me. I enjoyed that battle; our performance goes up because we’re thinking that ‘we want to beat his record," said Muralitharan. Muralitharan, 49, had made his international debut in August 1992 and retired in July 2010. Meanwhile, Warne, who was aged 52, made his debut in January 1992 and retired in January 2007. "It's shocking. I don't know what to say. He's a good frien...

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor's Professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. Born and raised in India, he earned an A.B. in economics (summa cum laude) from Harvard, an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge (UK), and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Prof. Muralidharan's primary research interests include development, public, and labor economics. Specific topics of interest include education, health, and social protection; measuring quality of public service delivery; program evaluation; and improving the effectiveness of public spending (with a focus on developing countries). Courses taught include undergraduate and graduate classes in development economics, program evaluation, the economics of education, and the Indian Economy.

Watch: Bowling great Broadcast on the ESPN channel in 2004, and titled ‘The Cricket Show’, the documentary had presenter Ravi Shastri breaking down Muralitharan’s bowling action in an attempt to justify its legality, including a segment in which he bowled with a brace on. Muralitharan, who was called for throwing by umpires on multiple occasions, has been the subject of several research publications through his playing career. The ICC tweaked its laws of the game in 2005, allowing the extent of the arm’s straightening to be 15 degrees, rendering Muralitharan’s action legitimate, after an investigation revealed that the vast majority of bowlers active in cricket at the time were also bowling with an illegal amount of flex. In the video, Shastri first explained how Muralitharan’s arm has a natural, outward bent, with his action consequently giving the “illusion” of a jerk. He continued to explain how his wrists and shoulders are unnaturally flexible too. Shastri was then joined by an orthopaedician, who further delved into the mysteries of Muralitharan’s arm, elaborating on the shoulder, which he explained helps with the arm’s unnatural “external rotation”. To further prove that his bent arm stays within permissible limits, Muralitharan proceeded to bowl with a 35cm-long customised arm brace, made up of heat-moulded plastic and containing steel rods. He delivered four of his variations – off-spin, flipper, doosra and the top-spin – with the brace on. Muralitharan then went o...

Watch: Bowling great Broadcast on the ESPN channel in 2004, and titled ‘The Cricket Show’, the documentary had presenter Ravi Shastri breaking down Muralitharan’s bowling action in an attempt to justify its legality, including a segment in which he bowled with a brace on. Muralitharan, who was called for throwing by umpires on multiple occasions, has been the subject of several research publications through his playing career. The ICC tweaked its laws of the game in 2005, allowing the extent of the arm’s straightening to be 15 degrees, rendering Muralitharan’s action legitimate, after an investigation revealed that the vast majority of bowlers active in cricket at the time were also bowling with an illegal amount of flex. In the video, Shastri first explained how Muralitharan’s arm has a natural, outward bent, with his action consequently giving the “illusion” of a jerk. He continued to explain how his wrists and shoulders are unnaturally flexible too. Shastri was then joined by an orthopaedician, who further delved into the mysteries of Muralitharan’s arm, elaborating on the shoulder, which he explained helps with the arm’s unnatural “external rotation”. To further prove that his bent arm stays within permissible limits, Muralitharan proceeded to bowl with a 35cm-long customised arm brace, made up of heat-moulded plastic and containing steel rods. He delivered four of his variations – off-spin, flipper, doosra and the top-spin – with the brace on. Muralitharan then went o...

DEBUT Muttiah Muralitharan’s first taste of international cricket came at the Premadasa in Colombo. Only 20 years old, he lined up against Allan Border’s Australia. So beguiling was the off-spinner that in a tour match that preceded the Test series, Border had been left swearing Muralitharan was a leg-spinner. And this was before he had the doosra in his arsenal. It was a quiet start for the Sri Lankan wizard, taking three wickets for the Test. His lone wicket in the first innings was that of Craig McDermott. No one could have foreseen that was the first of 800 he would claim in his Test career. STARRING IN A HISTORIC WIN Sri Lanka won an overseas Test for the first time in 1995, beating New Zealand in Napier by 241 runs, with two future greats at the heart of the victory. Chaminda Vaas took 5/47 to bowl New Zealand out for 109 in their first innings and backed it up with 5/43 in their second. But the seamer was not alone in his dismantling of the hosts, with Muralitharan taking 5/64 as New Zealand was bowled out for 185. They were crucial wickets too, with the offie accounting for five of New Zealand’s top seven. He removed Bryan Young early but the Kiwis’ pursuit of 427 was looking a distinct possibility as they reached 108/1. Muralitharan turned the match on its head from there, accounting for Mark Greatbatch, Stephen Fleming, Shane Thomson, and Adam Parore. WINNING THE WORLD CUP Twenty-five years on it remains the most iconic moment in Sri Lanka’s cricket history – the...

Batting Stats View All Game Type Mat Inn R BF NO Avg S/R 100s 50s H 4s 6s Ct St ODIs 350 162 674 869 63 6.80 77.56 0 0 33 50 12 130 0 TESTs 133 164 1261 1794 56 11.67 70.28 0 1 67 146 29 72 0 T20Is 12 2 1 5 0 0.50 20.00 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 T20s 164 38 81 110 14 3.37 73.63 0 0 11 3 2 31 0 LISTAs 453 205 945 0 76 7.32 null 0 0 33 0 0 159 0 FIRSTCLASS 232 276 2192 0 83 11.35 null 0 1 67 0 0 123 0 Bowling Stats View All Game Type Mat Inn O R W Avg E/R Best 5w 10w ODIs 350 341 3135.1 12326 534 23.08 3.93 7/30 10 0 TESTs 133 230 7339.5 18180 800 22.72 2.47 16/220 67 22 T20Is 12 12 47 297 13 22.84 6.31 3/29 0 0 T20s 164 164 617.3 3945 179 22.03 6.38 4/16 0 0 LISTAs 453 0 3955.4 15270 682 22.39 3.86 7/30 12 0 FIRSTCLASS 232 0 11155.3 26997 1374 19.64 2.42 null 119 34 Muttiah Muralitharan News Muttiah Muralitharan Biography Muttiah Muralitharan, born on April 17,1972 is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. Considered as one of the best test cricketers the game has ever seen, he was right arm off-break bowler. Over a span of 19 years on the field, he made an exceptional impact on Sri Lankan cricket through his unique, yet controversial bowling technique that led to his name being etched on several international record books. Background Muttiah is the first and only Tamil of Indian origin to represent Sri Lanka in international cricket. As a schoolkid, he practiced medium pace bowling. But he took up off-spin bowling when he was about 14 years old. His impressive performance earned him a solid s...

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor's Professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. Born and raised in India, he earned an A.B. in economics (summa cum laude) from Harvard, an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge (UK), and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research Prof. Muralidharan's primary research interests include development, public, and labor economics. Specific topics of interest include education, health, and social protection; measuring quality of public service delivery; program evaluation; and improving the effectiveness of public spending (with a focus on developing countries). Courses taught include undergraduate and graduate classes in development economics, program evaluation, the economics of education, and the Indian Economy.