Muttiah Muralitharan

Muralitharan took 800 Test wickets, the record, with an off-spinner's wrist that produced huge turn and a doosra that went the other way. His 16 wickets at the Oval in 1998, on a flat pitch where England made 445, won the Test almost single-handedly. His action was investigated and cleared after laboratory testing, a controversy that is part of his story.