Muttiah Muralitharan

1) Muttiah Muralitharan was born in a Tamil family on the 17 April 1972 at Kandy, Sri Lanka. 
2) Muttiah Muralitharan was the Bata Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year with St Anthony's College. 
3) Muttiah Muralitharan finished with 430 wickets in wins from just 53 Tests, a staggering average of eight wickets per match 
4) In terms of matches played, Muttiah Muralitharan is the fastest to 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650 and 700 wickets, and trivially so for 750 and 800. 
5) Muttiah Muralitharan 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. 
6) Muttiah Muralitharan was the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 2000 and 2006. 
7) In his first Test series against the Australian , Murali proved to be much more than a handful for the bamboozled Australians. Muttiah Muralitharan executed the top-spinner to such perfection that a bamboozled Australian skipper Allan Border failed to pick it up. 
8) Muttiah Muralitharan has a child named Naren with Madhimalar Ramamurthy. 
9) Muttiah Muralitharan holds the world record for the most wickets in both test and one-day cricket.
10) John Howard, the Prime Minister of Australia began the mind games against the Lankans when he described Muttiah Muralitharan as a ‘chucker’ in 2004. Muttiah Muralitharan cited that he would sit out of future tours to Australia. 
11) Muttiah Muralitharan and Glenn McGrath were both crowned as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World during their careers. 
12) Muttiah Muralitharan took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir on 5 February 2009 in Colombo to surpass Wasim Akram 's ODI record of 502 wickets. 
13) Muttiah Muralitharan became the highest wicket- taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007. 
14) Indian left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha became Muttiah Muralitharan’s 800 and final Test match wicket. Incidentally, Ojha’s was dismissed by Murali’s final delivery in Test cricket. 
15) Muttiah Muralitharan became the highest wicket- taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007. 
16) Muttiah Muralitharan had previously held the record when he surpassed Courtney Walsh's 519 wickets in 2004, but he suffered a shoulder injury later that year and was overtaken by Warne. 
17) The Warne Muralidharan Trophy is a tournament that is contested between Australia and Sri Lanka. It was unveiled in 2007. 18) One of Cricket’s greatest moments came in the 1998 tour of England. Muttiah Muralitharan picked up a mammoth 16 wickets in the match as the Lankans cruised to a 10-wicket win, their first Test win on English soil.