Muttiah Muralitharan creates another world records

Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan today surpassed Australia's Shane Warne in creating a new world record by bowling the highest number of maiden overs in Test cricket.

Muralitharan, playing in his 128th Test currently underway against the New Zealand, overtook Warne's record by bowling his 1752nd maiden over at the Galle Stadium. Warne has bowled 1751 maidens in his 145-Test career.

Muralitharan set up the record when he bowled the 79th over of the first innings during the first Test for a maiden.

It was the 27th over of Murali and the batsman on the crease against whom the deliveries were bolwed was all-rounder Jacob Oram.

Muralitharan is the highest wicket-taker in both Tests and in ODIs. He took the wicket of Gautham Gambhir in February this year in Colombo, to surpass Wasim Akram's ODI record of 502 wickets.

The 37-year-old Muralitharan became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-holder Shane Warne in December 2007.

source by:cricbuzz.com

Coventry equals Anwar's ODI record

Charles Coventry - with a highest of 74 before Sunday in One-Day Internationals - equaled Saeed Anwar's record of playing the highest individual innings in ODIs with an unbeaten 194 from 156 balls.

Had the non-striker Prosper Utseya showed some commonsense and given him the strike in the last over, Coventry would have broken the world record and could have also become the first batsman to score a double-century in ODIs.

Score Batsman Opponents Venue Date
194* CK Coventry (Zim) v Bangladesh Bulawayo 16-08-2009
194 Saeed Anwar (Pak) v India Chennai 21-05-1997
189* IVA Richards (WI) v England Old Trafford 31-05-1984
189 ST Jayasuriya (SL) v India Sharjah 29-10-2000
188* G Kirsten (SA) v U.A.E. Rawalpindi 16-02-1996
186* SR Tendulkar (Ind) v New Zealand Hyderabad (Ind) 08-11-1999
183* MS Dhoni (Ind) v Sri Lanka Jaipur 31-10-2005
183 SC Ganguly (Ind) v Sri Lanka Taunton 26-05-1999
181* ML Hayden (Aus) v New Zealand Hamilton 20-02-2007
181 IVA Richards (WI) v Sri Lanka Karachi 13-10-1987

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