World's top spinner Muttiah Muralidharan has decided to retire from Test cricket after the first Test, against India in the following month.
In a career spanning 18 years, the 38-year-old has taken 792 wickets in 132 Tests and 515 wickets in 337 ODIs.(67 5 wicket haul and 22 10 wicket haul.)
Although he will no longer play Test cricket after the first match of the three-Test series against India, Murali has kept open the option of playing the 2011 World Cup, to be co-hosted by Sri Lanka along with India and Bangladesh.
About a year ago, Murali had announced he would retire after the home series against the West Indies later this year, but in last November he said he could advance the Test retirement.
Murali said that he was 37 years old and he can’t bowl as much as those days because he get tired after 15-16 overs. But he said that he will try and play a little bit of one-day cricket… that’s only 10 overs to bowl.
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