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Muttiah Muralitharan

ムティア・ムラリタラン　/　むてぃあ・むらりたらん

Cricketer from Sri Lanka

April 17, 1972 (age 54)　・　Kandy, Central Province, Sri Lanka

Central Province
cricketer

My Take

Muralitharan is the rare athlete whose greatness I admire as much for its context as for its numbers. Eight hundred Test wickets is a record nobody will touch, but what moves me is how he got there: a Tamil cricketer becoming a unifying national hero in a Sri Lanka torn by civil war, and a bowler whose unorthodox action was questioned for years until testing vindicated him. He kept smiling, kept spinning, and let the wickets answer his critics. That mix of stubbornness and serenity separates legends from mere record-holders, and his later turn toward coaching and business tells me the competitive mind never switched off.

Overview

Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer. Averaging over six wickets per Test match, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. He is the only bowler to take 800 Test wickets and more than 530 One Day International (ODI) wickets.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Muttiah Muralitharan
Name (Japanese): ムティア・ムラリタラン
Reading: むてぃあ・むらりたらん
Born: April 17, 1972 (age 54)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rat
Origin: Kandy, Central Province, Sri Lanka
Blood type: Private
Height: 170 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: cricketer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: St. Anthony's College, Kandy

Awards & achievements

1999 Wisden Cricketer of the Year

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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