Murali...dharan!

Murali...in Hindi means "flute"..and Muralidhar is lord Krishna!

Muralidharan, a living legend retired from test cricket!! Well, what he has achieved makes him like lord Krishna of test cricket bowling!! Well, all know his accomplishments, and the problems he faced all along, including injuries, operations, chucking allegations, ICC test on his action etc etc...the list goes on.

But I was so pleasantly wondering over the grand last test he had, as if someone up there specially wrote the farewell script. Batting like he rarely did, he put his team total to a score, which became very difficult to achieve for India. then, getting sachin tendulkar to start with, and then go on to get another five wicket haul...!! And then end it up with 800 wickets, with 10 wicket win in the test, and few other records like maximum no of caught and bowled by specific player combo, maximum no of wickets against India, getting 40% of total no of test wickets ever taken by Sri Lanka(one needs to give it a thought to understand the enormity of the achievement!!)....I think, it could not have been better!

What I admire even more is, his decision to quit..he cud clearly have played more...and contributed....but then few legends have the capability to realise when to say it quits. McGraw did it just after winning the world cup...and I think Murali is following the right thing..quitting, when he is a king..not waiting till he becomes liability to carry for the team!

Bow to u legend!