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Muttiah Muralitharan
Muttiah Muralitharan played for Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2010 and finished his career with 800 Test wickets, the most of any bowler in the history of the format by a wide margin — the next closest bowler finished more than 100 wickets behind him, a gap that's unusual for a career record this significant. His unusual bowling action, involving a naturally bent arm from a childhood injury, drew repeated scrutiny and biomechanical testing throughout his career, including formal challenges to his action's legality in 1995 and 2004 — testing that ultimately confirmed his action fell within legal limits, but the controversy shadowed even his most dominant seasons. Muralitharan also holds the record for most wickets in One Day International cricket, meaning he finished his career as the all-time leading wicket-taker in both major forms of the international game simultaneously, a dual record matched on the batting side only by Sachin Tendulkar. Muralitharan was central to a golden era of Sri Lankan cricket, including the country's 1996 Cricket World Cup title, and his wicket tally, more than a decade after his retirement, still sits as the standard other spin bowlers are measured against, with no active bowler realistically positioned to threaten it.
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Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar made his international debut for India in 1989 at 16 and, across a 24-year career, became the leading run-scorer in the history of both major forms of international cricket — Test matches and One Day Internationals — a dual statistical record that no other player has come close to matching across both formats simultaneously. Tendulkar finished his career with 100 international centuries, a mark still known simply as "the ton of tons," combining 51 Test centuries and 49 ODI centuries — a round-number milestone that took years of anticipation to reach and that no other batsman in the sport's history has come within 20 centuries of matching. Nicknamed "the Little Master," Tendulkar was central to India's 2011 Cricket World Cup victory, played on home soil, a title his teammates carried him off the field to celebrate as the culmination of a career that had, until then, never included a World Cup win despite two decades of individual dominance. Tendulkar retired in 2013 after playing 200 Test matches, the most of any player in cricket history, and his sustained popularity across the entire subcontinent made him one of the most commercially significant athletes in the world during his playing career, a level of national attention few cricketers anywhere have matched before or since.
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