Muttiah Muralitharan

The former Sri Lankan spinner on the forthcoming World Cup, and the making of, and minimal fiction in, his Tamil biopic ‘800’, which will release along with dubbed versions in Telugu and Hindi on October 6 in Indian theatres, and will touch upon the Sri Lankan civil war and the 2009 terror attack on their cricket team.

Just for sake of variation, you can't play three spinners on Indian tracks, says Muttiah Muralitharan

India have picked three left-arm slow bowlers -- orthodox spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel along with wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav.

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2021: Virat Kohli emerges as greatest player for 2010 decade

On the occasion to mark the 50 years of ODIs, Wisden named its greatest player for each decade.

Muralitharan’s biopic exposes the festering wounds of Eelam in Tamil Nadu

What the controversy has brought to the front is that a large section in Tamil Nadu is against the Sri Lankan government, and the erstwhile LTTE is still viewed in favourable light

Ban spot-fixers for life, says Muralitharan

Anyone involved in spot-fixing should be banned for life, former Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan told Reuters on Saturday, days after six umpires were provisionally suspended for allegedly agreeing to fix matches.

We were gutted after World Cup loss: Muralitharan

'We were gutted', Muttiah Muralitharan said today about Sri Lanka''s defeat by India in the World Cup final, a match he had hoped to be the grand finale of his career during which he has collected 1334 international wickets.

Muralitharan retires with phenomenal records

Muttiah Muralitharan embodied the magic and mystery of Sri Lankan cricket with his prodigious powers of spin which took him to heights unlikely to ever be exceeded.

Tendulkar bears immense burden at World Cup

Sachin Tendulkar, possessor of every one-day batting record worth holding, carries an unparalleled weight of expectation over the course of the next two months.