Aged 20, Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan makes his Test debut against Australia in 1992 and claims Craig McDermott as his first scalp
Figures of 16-220 for Muralitharan against England in 1998 at The Oval see the young off-spinner past the 200-wicket mark
Despite an ICC panel giving it the all-clear in 1999, Muralitharan's highly controversial bowling action continues to attract attention
Despite this, his fantastic form in the 1998 season sees him crowned one of Wisden's five cricketers of the year in 1999
And in 2002 he becomes the youngest player, at 29, to take 400 Test wickets when he bowls Zimbabwe's Henry Olonga
Great spin rival Shane Warne is the first to break the 500-wicket barrier but Murali soon achieves the same feat by dismissing Australia's Michael Kasprowicz in Kandy
Courtney Walsh's record of 519 Test wickets falls to the Sri Lankan during the first Test against Zimbabwe in 2004 when he unseats Mluleki Nkala
Warne is the first to 600 wickets during the Ashes series of 2005 and it takes Murali until March 2006 to also reach the milestone when he gets the better of Bangladesh's Khaled Mashud
In July 2007 he takes 12 wickets as Bangladesh are thrashed in Muralitharan's hometown, Kandy, to move his tally to 700
And on 3 December 2007 he is back in Kandy to become the world's leading wicket-taker, Paul Collingwood becoming his 709th victim
On 22 July 2010, in the final match of his career, he eventually becomes the first man to take 800 Test wickets when India's Pragyan Ojha is caught off his bowling in Galle
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