Most wickets in a Test career

Overview:-

• Sri Lanka legend Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket taker in Test history.
• Muttiah Muralitharan, a spin bowler with a disability who survived years of allegations that his bowling action was illegal to become the most successful Test bowler in history, has become the first bowler to take 800 wickets in Tests.
• India’s last pair of Ishant Sharma and Pragyan Ojha held out for 15 overs before Murali, by then in his 45th over, struck, and the Muraliometer on the boundary edge clicked round to the magical 800.
• Ball-by-ball commentary on the CricInfo website recorded it like this: “115.4: Muralitharan to Ojha, OUT, 800 it is! The wait and the tension is finally over! Tossed up outside off and the four men around the bat wait in anticipation! Ojha lunges forward, edges it and Mahela falls to his left and takes the catch at first slip! No need to look anywhere for confirmation, straightforward and Murali is ecstatic.”
• He finishes with 800 Test wickets at 22.72 in 133 Tests.
• He took five in an innings on 67 occasions.
• Murali was carried from the field by jubilant teammates and saluted the crowd, ball held aloft.