Thing is Warne will always be first to 700 test wickets, even if Murali takes more of them. I was wondering the other day, would Warne have more wickets to his name if the Australian bowling attack hadn't been so good over the years? He's had to share them out with legends like McGrath, and in their prime good bowlers like Gillespie and Kasper. Murali on the other hand has had to rip through sides almost single handedly at times and is on occassions the sole chance of a wicket for Sri Lanka.
It's obviously unanswerable, but I wonder if Warne would have more wickets in his situation, or would in fact have less without the pressure being applied at the other end?