will Murali's 'most wickets' records ever be beaten?

[cnerd123]

Not got a prayer. He is 29 already and hasn't even got to 200 yet. Add in the fact he can't bowl away from home and he won't even get near Harbhajan never mind Kumble and then Murali.

Yea but Aswhin's probably going to play till his 50s and India plays a lot of Tests.

 

[Garson007]

It's difficult to break it and probably won't be broken (the test record). However, it isn't as difficult as the Hobbs record of most FC runs.

Easily the record in cricket that is the least likely to be broken.

 

[Pratters]

Ashwin is likely to play till 37-40. I will be surprised if he does take 500 or so wickets. Regarding abroad, he is better now than before. Looking forward to his matches in Australia.

 

[Midwinter]

Anyone pointed out yet that there aren't as many tests now as there were when Murali was setting his record.

There is likely to be even less test matches in the future.

 

[Pratters]

Test matches keep happening. It's the ODIs which has taken a beating in terms of quantity played.

 

[Furball]

I don't see Murali's ODI record going purely because players won't play enough.

For a bowler to play 350 games you're looking at 20-25 ODIs per year, every year, for 15 years. Teams don't play that much ODI cricket any more and it seems an excessive workload when you factor in Test cricket and at least 1 T20 league every year as well.

 

[Shri]

Not got a prayer. He is 29 already and hasn't even got to 200 yet. Add in the fact he can't bowl away from home and he won't even get near Harbhajan never mind Kumble and then Murali.

10 years of home tests for him at most? Lets say he plays 8, six of those in good form. 300 more test wickets will be easy, another 350 test scalps are a realistic target if he plays the way he does now. Maybe another 400 if he improves more. 100 wickets away from home would be mediocre but if he does that along with the 350-400 wickets at home, he would beat Harbhajan's record easily and maybe just even Kumble's. If everything goes perfectly well for him, he will finish with 620 odd test wickets.

So slightly ahead or behind Kumble's record but not anywhere close to Warne or Murali, assuming things go incredibly well. I would say he would actually finish somewhere between 500-600 wickets, allowing for form slumps.

 

[cnerd123]

Ashwin's going to do a WIlfred Rhodes IMO.

 

[harsh.ag]

Ashwin's going to do a WIlfred Rhodes IMO.

Rahul's son would have to go on a major downhill slide for this

 

[cnerd123]

Ashwin is an engineer. He'll build a bionic arm if he has to. Can't wait to see the controversy that creates.

 

[SuperMurali]

interesting answers

 

[Gob]

Ashwin is an engineer. He'll build a bionic arm if he has to. Can't wait to see the controversy that creates.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

When Fred Trueman reached 300 wickets Richie Benaud said in commentary that it would never happen again in the history of Test Cricket. Took about 10 years to be beaten.

 

[TheJediBrah]

In 30 years when Murali's record does get beaten everyone will be reminiscing about the old days when bowlers had to bowl without cybernetic replacements and all the young kids thinking how weird that would be

 

[Lillian Thomson]

In 50 years when drugs have been devised to slow down and reverse the aging process AJ Sprocket will have taken his 4000th wicket and still be raring to go.

 

[Red]

Muttiah Muralitharan is one of the all time greats. And he has the most wickets in ODIs and test matches

ODIs: 534 wickets from 350 games
tests 800 wickets from 133 games.


Will these records ever be beaten? It's hard to see him losing his test record. Sure some players may get to a comparable amount of test matches, but they don't take enough wickets to challenge his record. I think it's similar in ODIs.

Will these records ever be beaten?

 

[Gob]

If Lyon plays till 50, yeah

 

[YorksLanka]

If Lyon plays till 50, yeah

It will but not by Lyon, even if he plays till he is 200!!

 

[honestbharani]

Ashwin is an engineer. He'll build a bionic arm if he has to. Can't wait to see the controversy that creates.

 

[cnerd123]

I dont get the reference but you get a like for effort.