The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack rated him the greatest Test match bowler in 2002. In his eighteen-year test match and one day international career, Muralitharan’s achievements include a number of world records. He holds the record for having scored 800 test wickets, 534 international wickets, 59 ducks in international cricket, highest number of awards for Man of the Series in test matches; taking ten wickets in four consecutive test matches and doing so twice… and for brevity’s sake, we’ll stop here. You don’t need more reasons to own a cricket ball autographed by him.