Muralitharan retires with 800 wickets - Srilanka beats India in 1st Test

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Muralitharan couldn't have asked for a better ending to his illustrious career. He took 8 wickets in this test match and led his team Srilanka to a victory against the top team in ICC test rankings i.e. India.

India was bowled out for 338 in their second innings. Srilanka had to just make 95 to register a victory and take a 1-0 lead in the three test series. Srilanka reached the target without losing any wicket thus registering a 10 wicket victory over India.

With this test match, an era of Muralitharan came to an end as it was curtains to his test career with 800 test wickets to his name.

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India Vs Srilanka Test Series 2010 begins today - Muralitharan's last test match

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It is time for a test series.. a long awaited one as we can't see too much of test cricket nowadays. Thanks to India climbing to number 1 spot in ICC test ratings, the Indian team has started playing more of test cricket recently.

India takes on Srilanka in a 3 test series which starts today in Srilanka. This test will be a special one as the great off spinner Muralitharan has decided to retire from Test cricket, the first test of this series being his last test match.

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