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Warne-Muralidaran Trophy
Countries Australia and  Sri Lanka
AdministratorCricket Australia and Sri Lanka Cricket
FormatTest cricket
First edition2007/08
Tournament formatseries
Number of teams2
Current champion Australia
Most successful Australia (1 title)
Most runsAustralia Phil Jaques (318)
Most wicketsAustralia Brett Lee (16)

The Warne-Muralidaran Trophy is awarded to the winner of the Australia - Sri Lanka Test cricket series from 2007/08 season onwards. The trophy is named after the two leading wicket takers in Test cricket, Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan and Australia's Shane Warne.[1] The trophy celebrates the 25th anniversary of Australia - Sri Lanka Test cricket.[2] The trophy features casts of the two bowlers' right hands and match-used cricket balls bowled by them during their careers.[3] Sri Lanka Cricket, the governing body of cricket in Sri Lanka had written to its Australian counterpart, Cricket Australia, that the winner of the series should be awarded a trophy named after the two bowlers.[4] Cricket Australia had responded positively to the Sri Lankan's proposal. In unveiling the trophy, Cricket Australia said in a statement,

The two greatest bowlers in world cricket history have lent their names to a perpetual prize that will be played for in the Test series between Australia and Sri Lanka.[2]

Warne-Murali trophy became latest addition to the series named after former players such as Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the test series between Australia and India and Chappell-Hadlee Trophy which contested between Australia and New Zealand in ODI format.[5]

Inaugural 2007/08 series

Main article: Sri Lankan cricket team in Australia in 2007–08

Shane Warne retired from cricket in 2007 with 708 wickets against his name and Muttiah Muralitharan played the series with eight wickets short of Warne's tally at the start of the series.[6] Ricky Ponting stated that he was determined to ensure that denying Murali from getting the nine wickets to surpass Warne as the highest wicket taker in Test cricket while in Australia.[7] At the end of the serires Muralitharan bagged only four wickets. Australia won the test series and the trophy by 2-0.[8] In the second Test, Kumar Sangakkara was given out when actually ball hit his shoulder on 192 by umpire Rudi Koertzen.[9] After the match Koertzen apologized to Sangakkara. During the series Marvan Atapattu, former Sri Lankan cricket captain criticised the selecting board of Sri Lanka Cricket saying the selectors are a group of "Muppets headed by a joker" referring chairman of selectors, Ashantha de Mel.[7] Atapattu retired from cricket at the end of the series. The dates of the next series are not declared yet.

List of Warne-Muralidaran Trophy series

  Australia won
  Sri Lanka won
Series Season Played in First match Tests
played (sched) 		Tests won
by Australia 		Tests won
by Sri Lanka 		Tests
drawn 		Series
result 		Holder at
series end
1 2007–08 Australia 08 November 2007 2 2 0 0 Australia Australia

References

  1. ^ "Warne-Muralidaran Trophy unveiled". ABC News. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Warne-Murali trophy goes on the line". ABC News. 03 November 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ "New Warne-Muralidaran Test trophy announced". cricket.com.au. Cricket Australia. 19 September, 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ "Sri Lanka want Aussies to fight for Warne-Murali Trophy". ABC News. 31October 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Cricinfo staff (3 November 2007). "Teams will battle for Warne-Muralitharan Trophy". Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  6. ^ "Warne-Murali trophy is unveiled". BBC Sport. BBC. 3 November 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  7. ^ a b Coward, Mike (2007). "Australia v Sri Lanka 2007-08". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Australia wraps up series win against Sri Lanka". cricketnews.com.au. Cricket News. 20 November 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  9. ^ English, Peter (20 November 2007). "Koertzen says sorry to Sangakkara". Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
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