Editing Muttiah Muralitharan (section)

===In India===
Muralitharan was contracted to represent [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] in the 2008–09 [[Ranji Trophy]] tournament. He was expected to play about four matches in the tournament's second division – the Plate League.

In February 2008, Muralitharan was slated to play [[Twenty20]] cricket for the [[Chennai Super Kings]] in the [[Indian Premier League]] (IPL). He was bought for $600,000 by India Cements, the Chennai franchisee of the IPL, through a bidding process.<ref name="IPL Auction">{{Cite news|url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/current/story/338106.html|title=How the teams stack up|first=Siddhartha|last=Vaidyanathan|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|date=20 February 2008|access-date=21 February 2008|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121041121/http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ipl/content/current/story/338106.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Chennai Super Kings]] were the runners-up in the inaugural edition of the IPL, losing to the [[Rajasthan Royals]] in the final. Muralitharan captured 11 wickets in 15 games, at an economy rate of 6.96 an over. In 2010, in the third season of IPL, Muralitharan was part of the [[Chennai Super Kings]] side that won the IPL championship.<ref>[[2010 Indian Premier League]]</ref> Muralitharan also remained the side's leading wicket-taker after all the three tournaments.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ipl-chennai/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?class=6;id=4343;type=team |title=Cricket Records. Most wickets |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=1 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001054417/http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ipl-chennai/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?class=6%3Bid%3D4343%3Btype%3Dteam |archive-date=1 October 2012  }}</ref>

At the [[2011 IPL Player Auction]] Muralitharan was bought by [[Kochi Tuskers Kerala]] for US$1.1&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2011/content/story/495956.html |title=IPL: Teams spend big to overhaul their rosters. Indian Premier League 2011 |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=1 April 2011 |archive-date=10 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810185146/http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2011/content/story/495956.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 2012 season Muralitharan moved to [[Royal Challengers Bangalore]], where he took 14 wickets in 9 games and had an average economy rate of 6.38. He played for [[Royal Challengers Bangalore]] from 2012 to 2014. He decided to retire from the [[Indian Premier League|IPL]] in 2014.

In 2015, Muralitharan was appointed as the bowling coach and mentor of the IPL team [[Sunrisers Hyderabad]].