Sri Lankan Legend Muralitharan Expresses Worry About Test Cricket’s Future and His Untouchable Record

Legendary Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan believes it is unlikely that his record of 800 Test wickets would ever be surpassed as the game goes toward the white-ball formats.

Murali expressed his concern about the Test format’s future, saying that rival attractions had undermined his country’s “consistency” and that this series loss in England was a result.

When Sri Lanka last played a Test at the Oval, it was in 1998. Murali used his trademark rubber-wristed off-breaks to take 16 for 220 in a historic 10-wicket victory, which ranks fifth-best match totals in Test history and is one of his 22 match totals of 10 or more, another record.

Murali told Mail Sport that it would be difficult for anyone to surpass the 800 mark, which has stood since his departure in 2010. This is because the focus has turned to short-form cricket. We played for twenty years as well. Nowadays, careers are shorter.

The two players who currently have the most wickets taken, Nathan Lyon of Australia (530) and Ravichandran Ashwin of India (516), are both off-spinners and are still far behind.

Murali declared, “I am definitely worried about Test cricket.” Each nation will participate in no more than six or seven Test matches.
Australia and England might compete for the Ashes. Nevertheless, not many people are watching in certain other nations. There won’t be a lot of Test matches.

As the third Test at the Oval saw the 52-year-old Murali’s team battle back with the ball, he declared that the series was lost because “in these conditions England are too good for us.”

“The issue is consistency,” he continued. It doesn’t matter how skilled they are; talent is what unites them all. What matters is how can they gain experience.

These days, it’s challenging. Their minds are overflowing with competitions and ideas.

Murali says the 1998 one-off Test match was significant because his country “needed to win to make sure we got more Test matches in England.” Murali is a philanthropist whose work includes the Foundation of Goodness, which aids impoverished children in Sri Lanka.

He said: ‘The wicket was flat, and even though England got nearly 450, we got almost 600. On the fourth evening, the wicket started spinning. I used to spin the ball any day, and I got bounce. That’s why we ended up winning the match.’

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