IPL: Chennai Super Kings's first ever IPL XI- Where are they now?

#11 Muttiah Muralitharan

Sri Lankan legend Muttiah Muralitharan was Chennai Super Kings most economical bowler in their maiden IPL match, and conceded 33 runs from his 4 overs and picked up the wicket of his Sri Lankan teammate Kumar Sangakkara. Overall, Muralitharan had a fairly good IPL 2008, and picked up 11 wickets from 15 matches at miserly economy rate of 6.98.

Muralitharan played international cricket for Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2011 and retired from international cricket as the highest wicket taker in both Test and ODI formats with 800 and 534 wickets respectively. Muralitharan was also rated as the greatest test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketer's Almanack in 2002.

In IPL apart from Chennai Super Kings, Muralitharan also played for now defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Royal Challengers Bangalore, and is currently the bowling coach and mentor of Sunrisers Hyderabad.