When I was there, a match was going on in Colombo, so I went to the stadium and watched him play. That was the first time I was watching a game live. Till then I had not been to a cricket stadium. That day Murali took three wickets.

But unlike me, my late husband used to be a big cricket fan. He never used to miss any match though he also was a doctor. He had watched Murali play but never knew one day he would be our son-in-law.

I missed my husband when Murali broke the world record. I know how proud he would have been. Had my husband been alive, I am sure he would have been there in Kandy.

Photograph: DESHAKALYAN CHOWDHURY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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