MALINGA CALLS IT A DAY

SRI Lanka fast bowling ace Lasith Malinga will retire from 50-over Internationals after Friday’s first match against Bangladesh, captain Dimuth Karunaratne has said.

Malinga has taken 335 wickets in 225 One-Day Internationals for Sri Lanka, the third highest for the island country behind Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas.

“He is going to play the first match,” Karunaratne told reporters. “After that he is retiring. That’s what he told me.”

He has also taken three ODI hat-tricks and is the only player to have achieved the milestone twice during a World Cup.