we all know about the greatest spin bowling legend muralitharan.His unique style of bowling off breaks, doosra and more variety bowling options grabbed him more wickets than any other bowler in the cricket history.Here is the list of unique records that can never be broken by any bowler. Have a look at these records
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of highest number of wickets in test cricket. He has taken 800 wickets in 133 test cricket matches.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of highest number of wickets in One day International (ODI) cricket. He has taken 534 wickets in ODI cricket matches.
Muttiah Muralitharan is the most successful bowler fielder (non-wicket keeper) combination taking the maximum number of 67 wickets with Mahela Jayawardene: for example:Bowled Muralitharan and caught Jayawardene.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of highest number of combined wickets of 1334 in Test and ODI cricket.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of most number of five wicket haul in test cricket -67 times
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of most number of ten wicket haul in test cricket -22 times
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of being the only player taking ten wickets haul in test crcket against all test playing countries.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of reaching fastest the mark of 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650 and 700 test wickets in terms of matches played.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of taking ten wickets haul in test cricket in four consecutive test matches. He has the credit of achieving this feat twice.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of being the only player to have taken more than fifty test wickets against all test playing nations.
Muttiah Muralitharan shares the World record of taking nine wickets in test cricket innings twice with Jim Laker of England.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of taking seven wickets in an innings against most number of five Countries.
Muttiah Muralitharan has taken most number of bowled wickets in test cricket 157 times. Bowled Murali is the most common dismissal in test cricket (excluding run out).
Muttiah Muralitharan has taken most number of stumped wickets in test cricket 41 times.
Muttiah Muralitharan has taken most number of caught and bowled wickets in test cricket 31 times.
Muttiah Muralitharan shares the World record of most number of 18 times man-of-the-match awards with Jacques Kallis of South Africa.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of taking more than 100 wickets in one single ground at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the World record of being the only cricket player to have taken more than 75 wickets in three calendar years. He has achieved this feat in the years 2000, 2001 and 2006.
Muttiah Muralitharan is only one of the six test players in the history of test cricket to have dismissed all the eleven batsmen in a test match.
Muttiah Muralitharan has been awarded the best test bowler of all times by Wisden in 2002.
Warne-Muralitharan Trophy was introduced on 15th November, 2007 as a test series between Australia and Sri Lanka.
Muttiah Muralitharan is the only sportsman in Sri Lankan history to have been honored by the Parliament of Sri Lanka. This gesture was shown by the Supreme Legislature of Sri Lanka when he achieved the highest number of wickets in test cricket.
Muttiah Muralitharan holds the record of being ranked number one for the longest period of time by PWC (Price Water house Coopers).
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