Top 5 ODI spinners of all time

Muttiah Muralitharan

Sri Lanka v West Indies - 2011 ICC World Cup Warm Up Game

Without dispute, the Sri Lankan icon is the greatest spinner cricket has ever seen. The man with a broad smile and a controversial action has seen that action taken apart, analysed, and during his 18-year cricketing career, set a number of records that may not be beaten during his own lifetime at the very least.

He all but made himself the face of Sri Lankan bowling during his career, and took a staggering 534 wickets from 341 innings.

He maintained a meagre economy rate of 3.93 over the course of his career, and won thirteen Man of the Match titles in One-day internationals.

Controversial though his bowling action may be, statistics speak louder than words - and perhaps none speak as loudly as Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan's.