Muttiah Muralitharan
On July 22, 2010, in his 133rd and final Test, Muttiah Muralitharan took his 800th Test wicket with the very last ball of his career, dismissing India's Pragyan Ojha (caught by Mahela Jayawardene) at Galle, in a match Sri Lanka won by ten wickets. No bowler had ever reached 800 Test wickets; none has since. A Hill Country Tamil from Kandy — a minority during Sri Lanka's long civil war — Muralitharan bowled off-spin with a congenitally bent elbow he could not fully straighten, and his unusual action drew repeated "chucking" accusations. On Boxing Day 1995 at the MCG, umpire Darrell Hair no-balled him seven times for throwing; another umpire, Ross Emerson, did so again in 1999. Rather than lash out, Muralitharan submitted to biomechanical testing at the University of Western Australia, which showed his arm stayed bent throughout the delivery and cleared him; later study of bowlers across the game led cricket to adopt a uniform 15-degree tolerance, within which his action fell. He retired as the all-time leading wicket-taker in both Test and one-day cricket.