COLOMBO: Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has retired from 50-over and Twenty20 internationals with a view to keep on enjoying Check matches, the nation’s cricket board stated on Sunday.
The 38-yr-previous took seventy four wickets in seventy one one-day internationals and one other 18 in 17 T20 matches for the island nation, shouldered the burden of the sluggish bowling assault following the retirement of spin nice Muttiah Muralitharan in 2011.
“Each cricketer has to cease on the proper time, I really feel it is time to make room for recent expertise to be groomed with the 2019 World Cup in view,” Herath was quoted as saying in a press release from Sri Lanka Cricket.
Arguably the left-arm spinner’s greatest effort got here on the 2014 World Twenty20, the place he took 5 wickets for simply three runs as Sri Lanka efficiently defended a one hundred twenty-run goal in a should-win match towards New Zealand en path to the title.
“Sri Lanka Cricket needs Herath nothing however one of the best as he continues to play cricket in his chosen self-discipline, and in all future endeavours,” the board stated.
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