warne Vs muralitharan

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According to the BBC, Muralitharan was Wisden named in 2002 as the "top test bowler in history" [2]. In May 2004, in Zimbabwe, he overtook West Indian Courtney Walsh's record of 519 Test match wickets to become the highest-wicket taker until Shane Warne, the Australian leg-spinner overtook his record in late 2004 after an injury forced Murali to miss a considerable number of matches. However Warne, currently on 699 test wickets, as of December 18, 2006, believes that the younger Muralitharan will eventually be the one to finish with the record, saying he believes that Muralitharan will take "1000 wickets" before he retires [3]. Former all-time wickets record holder Courtney Walsh has also opinioned that this was entirely possible if Murali retained his hunger for wickets [4]. Muralitharan is the only known wrist-spinning off-spinner in the history of the game. His unique bowling action begins with a "flapping wings" run-up, and culminates with an extremely wristy release. He was mistaken for a leg spinner early in his career by Allan Bordernone other than. Aside from his off break, he also a bowls a fast topspinner which goes straight on, and is a master of the doosra, which turns from leg to off with no discernible change of action. He is also able to bowl leg spin ala Shane Warne, as shown during the South African Tour of Sri Lanka series in 2006, managing to extract prodigious spin. Murali became politically active in 2004, becoming an ambassador for the United Nations World Food Program, and joining an anti-poverty campaign. He said he was "lucky to be alive" after narrowly missing the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake by just 20 minutes [5]. One week later, he was reported [6] to be helping distribute food to victims of the tsunami. He is one of two Tamils in the Sri Lankan cricket team (the other being Russel Arnold [7]). Muralitharan married an Indian woman, Mathimalar Ramamurthy, in 2005 [8].