Match: England vs Sri Lanka 1st of 3 Test matches, day 2
Location: Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy, Sri Lanka

A nation will have to wait until the morning for the record to be broken, but on day 2, Mutthiah Muralidharan took 4 English wickets to finish the day with 708 career test wickets equalling the world record that he briefly held in 2004 when he overtook Courtney Walsh’s then record of 519

Shane Warne had a purple patch where he overtook Murali and extended his lead before finally retiring in January 2007

Fast forward to now where Murali has now equalled Shane Warne’s record and with England resuming tomorrow at 186/6 it’s a case of when rather than if Murali will get to 709 and beyond.

What he will achieve in the long run is anyone’s guess. Shane Warne thought Murali would take 1000 before the end of his career, but that is for the future