How do you become one of the world’s greatest cricketers? If you’re Muthiah Muralidaran, you develop your unique bowling style, one that most batters dread and even the gifted ones find hard to read. Result — you take a record-breaking 800 test wickets and 534 one-day wickets. The former Sri Lankan off-spinner built a golden career that will be remembered in the annals of history, and on the big screen. On the occasion of Muralidaran’s 51st birthday today, director MS Sripathy has brought the first look of 800. The biopic borrows its title from the bowler’s record of taking the highest number of wickets in test cricket, one of his 16 world records. Madhurr Mittal, best known for playing Salim in Slumdog Millionaire (2008), steps into the shoes of the player for the sports drama that will be released later this year in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Sripathy says the narrative will begin from Tamil Nadu, from where Muralidaran’s grandparents were sent to Sri Lanka by the British to work in tea plantations. To the …