Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan 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. As of 2024, he has taken more wickets in international cricket than any other bowler. Muralitharan was a part of the Sri Lankan team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
Muralitharan at the CEAT Cricket Ratings Awards in February 2013
Muralitharan bowling for Gloucestershire in 2011.
Muralitharan bowling to Adam Gilchrist in an ODI in 2006.
Muttiah Muralitharan bowling in SCG for ICC World XI
Shane Keith Warne, nicknamed Warnie, was an Australian international cricketer whose career ran from 1992 to 2007. Widely considered to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a lower-order right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire, the Melbourne Stars and Australia. Warne also played for and coached the Rajasthan Royals, including captaining the team to victory in the inaugural season of the IPL.
Warne in February 2015
Warne (right) bowling to Ian Bell at the Gabba in Brisbane in 2006
Warne bowling against the Sydney Sixers in 2011 during a Big Bash League match
Warne bowling at Lord's for Rajasthan Royals in a Twenty20 match against Middlesex in 2009