Will Muttiah Muralitharan

[slippy]

Get 800 Test match wickets before he retires.

 

[Bravo]

Oh yes he will. He will retire as the greatest spinner ever.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Aye. Only needs twenty-odd, doesn't he? Three tests in India later this year might even be enough for him.

 

[subshakerz]

Aye. Only needs twenty-odd, doesn't he? Three tests in India later this year might even be enough for him.

When exactly are Sri Lanka expected to tour India?

 

[TT Boy]

November.

 

[SJS]

Oh yes he will. He will retire as the greatest spinner ever.

Does that mean he needs twenty odd wickets to become the greatest ever?

 

[James_W]

Does that mean he needs twenty odd wickets to become the greatest ever?

No.

To the original question, yes. Yes he will.

 

[silentstriker]

He won't get 1000 I think, which is the number that was being floated a while back. I see around 850 before he retires.

I don't think he'll get 23 in 3 Tests in India.

 

[Lostman]

He won't get 1000 I think, which is the number that was being floated a while back. I see around 850 before he retires.

He already said that we wont get 1000, only 5 more tests for Murali so 800-815ish

 

[cric_manic]

Oh yes he will. He will retire as the greatest spinner ever.

warne.....

 

[MC_Balaji]

I doubt he'll get 23 wickets in 3 test matches, will his series in India be his last?

 

[JBH001]

He has 5 tests left, 3 against India in India, and two against WI in Sri Lanka. He needs 17 wickets to get to 800.

I doubt he will get 17 wickets in India, especially now that he is in decline, so he should do it in the home tests against WI.

 

[Migara]

If India prepare sporting wickets, SL seamers will make it difficult for Murali. But I am not sure whether he'll be fit enough to even tour there. Today also got injured.

 

[DingDong]

If India prepare sporting wickets, SL seamers will make it difficult for Murali. But I am not sure whether he'll be fit enough to even tour there. Today also got injured.

Will be a shame if he can't make it to 800 wickets....

 

[pasag]

warne.....

and so it starts...

 

[TT Boy]

If India prepare sporting wickets, SL seamers will make it difficult for Murali. But I am not sure whether he'll be fit enough to even tour there. Today also got injured.

A sporting wicket won't appear until India are trailing in the series.

 

[morgieb]

Unless he gets injured, he probably will.

 

[Migara]

A sporting wicket won't appear until India are trailing in the series.

But the case with SL it's different I think. they don't want to play into SLs hand with preparing raging turners, especially when India don't have Kumble. Roads may be the order of the day.

 

[TT Boy]

Fancy slow, low turners which nullifies everyone.

 

[bullseye]

Get 800 Test match wickets before he retires.

It is doable unless he is plagued by injury which cannot be ruled out.He deserves to get 800 scalps