Sri Lanka: The highest wicket taker in test match cricket, Muttiah Muralitharan, said on Wednesday that he is planning to retire from test cricket at the end of this year and from all forms of international cricket after the World Cup scheduled for next March.

The 37-year-old Sri Lankan cricketer, who has taken a world-record 792 wickets in 132 Tests, will finally call it quits on an 18-year long career after the West Indies’ two-Test tour of Sri Lanka in October. He needs only eight more scalps to become the first and only player to take 800 wickets.

“My future is all about playing one-dayers until the World Cup. If I am fit and good I will play until the World Cup and the World Cup will be the end of the road,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

He also confirmed that he will play in the third edition of the Indian Premier League later this month despite a threat by terror outfit al-Qaeda and also urged his teammates to go and play in India.

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