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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milindasenarath" data-source="post: 6234386" data-attributes="member: 24442">July 2007: It took Muttiah Muralitharan 27 Tests to get his first 100 wickets at 31.49. After 87 Tests, his tally stood at 505 at 22.89. Fourteen Tests later he had got to 600, and in another 12, to 700 - only the second bowler, after Shane Warne, to reach the landmark - at 21.33. He got there at his home ground in Kandy, with a 12 wicket-haul against Bangladesh in a match Sri Lanka won by an innings and 193 runs<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/77400/77435.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />September 2007: One of the most controversial players of the decade, Shoaib Akhtar found himself in off-field incidents aplenty through the 2000s, and has played less than half the Tests and ODIs Pakistan has played since his debut. In 2006 he and Mohammad Asif were found guilty of using the banned steroid nandrolone. In 2007 a dressing-room bust-up with Asif led to a fine and suspension for Shoaib, and later, in August 2008, a five-year ban, which was subsequently truncated. In 2009, the PCB pulled him from Pakistan's World Twenty20 squad and revealed the reason was because he had genital warts<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/89400/89448.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />September 2007: In front of a frenzied crowd at the Wanderers, two old rivals played out one of the best finals ever seen in a major tournament. India won the inaugural World Twenty20 when Misbah-ul-Haq's attempted scoop landed in the hands of Sreesanth at short fine leg. Twenty20 had come a long way and this was an engrossing conclusion to an enthralling competition<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/110400/110404.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />April 2008: Sharp, brash, ruthlessly ambitious, and admired and reviled in equal measure, Lalit Modi will be known as the man who changed the landscape of cricket. The Indian Premier League, the multi-million-dollar, football-style, franchise-based domestic league Modi conceived and executed with spectacular success has hurtled cricket into the fast lane, forcing the traditionalists to follow suit even as they squir. The tournament, first held in 2008, consolidated India's position as cricket's economic powerhouse, and consequently, its premier agenda-sette<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/102400/102432.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />June 2008: When Allen Stanford announced that he was funding a pan-Caribbean Twenty20 tournament in 2005, few took much notice, but the success of his inaugural event was unquestionable. By the time of the second Stanford 20/20 in early 2008, he had earned respect and was seen, by some, as the only credible and wealthy-enough alternative to the IPL. In mid-2008, he made his biggest statement, landing on the outfield at Lord's in a helicopter and unveiling a case full of dollar bills as part of an announcement that he was investing US$100 million in a series of Twenty20 games over five years. In early 2009, Stanford was charged with "a fraud of shocking magnitude"; he was jailed and his empire came crashing down<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/111500/111578.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />July 2008: Ajantha Mendis was unquestionably the debutant of 2008. A mystery when he emerged into international view, he hadn't grown up in the public eye, he spoke only Sinhala, his captain didn't talk a lot about him in public, and admitted to at times not knowing what fields to set for him, because he didn't know what he was going to bowl. In his first four overs in Test cricket Mendis troubled Rahul Dravid with the carrom ball; in his fifth he had him bowled. Dravid's face said eloquently that he hadn't seen anything like it before<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/110400/110403.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />August 2008: Nine years on from their lowest point in the 1999 World Cup, South Africa exorcised some of the ghosts of Edgbaston by claiming their first Test series win in England since 1965 at the venue. Graeme Smith's unbeaten 154 - one of the most memorable fourth-innings centuries - set up the chase of 281. It was a crowning moment for Smith, whose love affair with Edgbaston had begun with his 277 there in 2003<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/110400/110422.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />December 2008: After the turmoil of the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks, India couldn't have picked a better moment to create history, completing a famous six-wicket victory in Chennai by chasing down the fourth-largest target in Test cricket. Sachin Tendulkar masterminded the uplifting success with a century of such serenity that he made the pressure-cooker environment seem like an afternoon in the park. Along with Yuvraj Singh, he added an unbroken 163, sapping the England spirit that had carried the visitors into a dominant position in the game for the first four days<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/97100/97156.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />December 2008: The innings that capped a great year for South Africa. JP Duminy, who had scored a nerveless 50 on debut in the first Test as South Africa successfully chased 414, made an accomplished 166 and added a record 180 runs with Dale Steyn for the ninth wicket to take South Africa from a position of vulnerability to one of control. Steyn took 5 for 67 in the second innings and South Africa won by nine wickets, and went on to take the top spot in the Test rankings<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/97600/97605.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />March 2009: The attack on cricketers and match officials in Lahore in which eight Pakistanis were killed and seven Sri Lankan players injured, shocked the world. Pakistan's status as a host of international matches had been uncertain for some time, but this incident sealed their fate: their co-hosting rights for the 2011 World Cup were taken away from them<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/99700/99764.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />June 2009: It was Pakistan's second consecutive appearance in a World Twenty20 final, and this time they took the prize. Abdul Razzaq, who was returning to the side after two years, took three wickets to keep Sri Lanka to a below-par 138. Then Shahid Afridi hit an unbeaten 40-ball 54 to seal the deal in the 19th over<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/105100/105171.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />August 2009: England's cricketers reclaimed the Ashes on a tumultuous fourth afternoon at The Oval, as Australia's brave resistance was slowly dismantled. At Lord's earlier in the series, Andrew Flintoff had produced his first five-for since the 2005 Ashes to give England their first win at the venue in 75 years. The teams had played out a thrilling draw in the first game, in Cardiff, and the third Test, at Edgbaston, was drawn. Australia took the fourth by an innings and 80 runs before the teams went to The Oval for the decider, where Flintoff's direct hit to get rid of Ricky Ponting in the run chase proved among the turning points of the match. ssed in South London since the unforgettable summer of 2005, England's cricketers reclaimed the Ashes on a tumultuous fourth afternoon at The Oval, as Australia's brave resistance was unpicked, wicket by wicket, minute by minute. Andrew Flintoff had announced his decision to retire before the Lord's Test and made the venue memorable with his first five-for since Ashes 2005 to give England their first win at Lord's in 75 years. The third Test at Edgbaston was drawn and Australia came back to win the fourth by an innings and 80 runs before England took the series 2-1 at The Oval. Flintoff's direct hit to run out Ricky Ponting in the run chase was the turning point of the fifth Test. Leading run-scorer Andrew Strauss was the Man of the Series, along with Michael Clarke<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/107400/107406.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />November 2009: In the month he completed 20 years in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar produced one of his more memorable ODI hundreds - a near-faultless 175 against Australia - but one that was doomed to feature on the losing side, uncannily like his Test 136 in Chennai against Pakistan in 1999. Tendulkar's innings took 141 balls and contained 19 fours and four sixes, but India fell four short of the 351 they needed to win after he was dismissed trying a paddle-scoop and India lost three wickets for 15 runs<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/109900/109910.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />November 2009: One of the best Test matches of the year came at the end. Dunedin produced a classic that New Zealand won when they prised out the last Pakistan wicket in the final session on day five with the visitors 30-odd runs short of victory. The match was notable for the returns of Shane Bond and Mohammad Asif, who both reminded the world of what they could do by taking eight wickets apiece, and for a remarkable century on debut by Umar Akmal<img src="http://www.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/110700/110707.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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