Muralitharan: I will miss bowling to Sachin

Srilankan Ace Spinner Muralidharan after his retirement announced that he is going to miss bowling to our Little Master Blaster Sachin in his cricket career.

Muralitharan achieved his 800 wickets in Test cricket matches in his 18 years career in the cricket. He is not only achieved his mark but also guided Srilanka to a thumping 10-wicket win against India at Galle.

Murali quoted "I am going to miss the dressing room environment. The challenges of five-day cricket and first and foremost bowling to great players like Sachin Tendulkar. I will miss this,". [Source: ndtv.com]

Murali however does not think that his decision was not correct and also the decision was not premature one. He said that it was the perfect time to retire from the Test cricket.

Murali to his surprise, achieved his 800 wickets after he took wicket in his final ball in the test cricket against India.

Muralitharan said he felt overwhelmed by the love and respect showered on him by great players like Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram and Sourav Ganguly.

Muralitharan a real gentleman not only in cricket but also in his real life.

Congrats Murali!!!

Muttiah Muralidharan Favors MS Dhoni

Srilankan ace spinner Muttiah Muralidharan shows his support towards MS Dhoni as recently he was under fire for the worst captaincy in the T20 world cup 2010. The early exit from the T20 world cup and the continued silly statements from Dhoni put him in trouble in the cricket arena.

Besides this trouble, Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralidharan told that Mahendra Singh Dhoni remains one of the best skippers in international cricket and it is not worthy that the captain should be criticized on the basis of just one bad tournament.

The world’s highest wicket-taker in Tests and ODIs, Muttiah played under the captaincy of Dhoni in Indian Premier League for the side Chennai Super Kings. During IPL, Muttiah was surprised by the captaincy attitude that Dhoni has showed during the IPL matches. Dhoni's captaincy should not be mislead on the basis of India’s early ouster from the showpiece event in the Caribbean.

"Dhoni is one of the best cricket captains I have seen. How can one doubt his captaincy when he recently won the IPL trophy for his team Chennai Super Kings," Muralitharan told mediapersons here.

Besises this, Muralidharan will quit cricket after the 2011 ODI World Cup in the subcontinent and the 38-year-old veteran of 132 Tests and 334 one-dayers said he wanted to sign off on a high.

Muralitharan plans to retire from Test Cricket in 2010

The ace spinner Muralitharan have decided to retire from the Test Cricket match this year 2010 and decided to retire from other forms of International cricket after the end of Cricket World Cup scheduled on next year 2011.

The 37 year old Murali have taken a world record of 792 wickets in 132 Tests, having eigth more ticekts to reach a mark of 800 wickets in Test matches. Till date, he had a successful career of 18 years and he may withdraw from the test matches after playing against West Indies in this October. He needs only eight more scalps to become the first and only player to take 800 wickets.

He has also taken 512 wickets from 334 ODIs.He is going to play for the Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League starting this March 12th.

Muralitharan is one of the best bowlers in the game.

Sri Lanka's Test schedule for 2010 is completed by three Tests in India in July, although that series is yet to be confirmed. Muralitharan said his aim was to reach the 800 Test wicket mark before retiring.

Hats off Murali!!!