Sri Lanka's world bowling record holder Muttiah Muralitharan says he'll quit Test cricket next year, but continue to play limited-overs cricket.
The 37-year-old off-spinner, with a record 770 Test and 507 one-day wickets, announced that he'll play his last two Tests in the series against the West Indies at home in November 2010.
Muralitharan missed the recent three-Test series against Pakistan due to a knee injury.
He says the hardest game in cricket is Tests..... you have to take wickets and get batsmen out and sometimes you have to spend two days in the field.
The 127-Test veteran says he's been working hard on his fitness as age caught up with him.
Muralitharan, who once said he was aiming to take 1,000 Test wickets, says the few Tests played by Sri Lanka in recent years had made it difficult for him to achieve that milestone.
Sri Lanka play two Tests against New Zealand next month and three in India at the end of the year. Next year Sri Lanka have just the two Tests against the West Indies.
Muralitharan, who made his Test debut against Australia in 1992, passed Australian Shane Warne's record of 708 Test wickets in December 2007.
He also overtook Pakistani Wasim Akram's record one-day tally of 502 wickets earlier this year.
