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^He will never play for India but he will definitely be faster than any of their bowlers at 50
He'll come out of retirement and play for Bangladesh and be their fastest bowler at the age of 70. May also be named as their skipper.He will retire now. Then he will come out of retirement and play for India and be their fastest bowler at the age of 50.
He will retire now. Then he will come out of retirement and play for India and be their fastest bowler at the age of 50.
He'll come out of retirement and play for Bangladesh and be their fastest bowler at the age of 70.
Sri Lankan spin-bowling wizard Muttiah Muralitharan said on Friday that he will retire from all forms of cricket after February’s ICC World Cup.
“This World Cup will be my last outing,” said the record-breaking spinner after a training session in Colombo. “I am retiring totally from international cricket thereafter.”
The esteemed event, to be jointly hosted by three Test playing nations of subcontinent- India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh- gets underway on 19 February, 2011.
The 38-year-old holds the record for being the leading wicket taker in both Test and one-day cricket.
Having played 133 Tests, Murali picked up 800 wickets at an average of 22.72 including 67 five-wicket hauls and 22 ten wickets in a match. He played his swansong Test match against India in Galle in July 2010 in which he crossed 800-wicket mark by dismissing Pragyan Ojha.
His one-day record is equally impressive where he has claimed 517 scalps from 339 appearances including 10 five-wicket hauls and best bowling figures of 7 for 30.
Muralitharan said that his focus for the time being is the quadrennial tournament which would be his fourth World Cup since debuting in 1996 World Cup which Sri Lanka won after defeating Australia in Lahore. The legendary spinner was confident his last World Cup outing will be evenly memorable as was the opening.
“This is my fourth World Cup. We won in 1996 and came close in 2007 by reaching the final. This would be a memorable one for me and for Sri Lankan fans,” he said.
The Sri Lankan spin prodigy said he had no plans of coaching any time soon after retirement and will instead play in domestic tournaments of various countries.
“There are plenty of coaches and lots of talented people out there. I will take things as they come. For the moment, no coaching stints,” said Murali. “I have signed up to play for two years in the IPL. I am also looking at similar work in New Zealand and perhaps England,” added the off-spinner.
The mega event starts in Dhaka on 19 February, 2011 and will run till 2 April. Sri Lanka is scheduled to host 12 World Cup fixtures and three of them will be played at the newly constructed stadium in Muralitharan's home district, Kandy.
I thought there was something about him coaching australia's spinners recently?The Sri Lankan spin prodigy said he had no plans of coaching any time soon after retirement and will instead play in domestic tournaments of various countries.
He will retire now. Then he will come out of retirement and play for India and be their fastest bowler at the age of 50.