Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach and former cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by 'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack' in 2002. He retired from Test cricket in 2010, registering his 800th and final wicket (dismissal of a batsman) on 22 July 2010 from his final ball in his last Test match. Muralitharan holds the world record for the most wickets in both test and one-day cricket. In 2017, he became the only Sri Lankan to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. He won the Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year in 2017.

Murali became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007. 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.

Muralitharan took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir on 5 February 2009 in Colombo to surpass Wasim Akram's ODI record of 502 wickets.

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