Sri Lankan quick bowler as good as Mumbai Indians player Lasith Malinga tosses a ball. Two former Sri Lankan captains Kumar Sangakkara as good as Mahela Jayawardene have corroborated a bowler’s preference to give up Tests since of a getting worse knee condition.
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COLOMBO (AFP) – Two former Sri Lankan captains Kumar Sangakkara as good as Mahela Jayawardene upon Sunday corroborated quick bowler Lasith Malinga’s preference to give up Tests since of a getting worse knee condition.
Malinga voiced his early early retirement last Friday, days after Sri Lanka Cricket questioned his appearance in a remunerative Indian Premier League (IPL) after he withdrew from a arriving England Tests citing issues with his fitness.
The paceman, who is in tip form for a Mumbai Indians in a IPL, not prolonged ago done himself taken for Sri Lanka’s Test array in England, attracting critique which he had selected bar over country.
Sangakkara pronounced Malinga’s preference was most appropriate for a group whilst Jayawardene pronounced it was a right call from a personal indicate of view, according to a Cricinfo website.
“We were all good wakeful of a earnest of his knee condition,” Sangakkara pronounced of a injury-prone bowler, who has pierced eyebrows, painted blond thatch as good as a particular slinging action.
“While you was captain you attempted to conduct him as delicately as good as tenderly as probable during a past integrate of years,” pronounced Sangakkara, who give up as skipper this month following a team’s better in a World Cup last to India.
“The law is which Lasith is a most appropriate quick bowler in limited-overs cricket right now. If you forced him to fool around Tests you would be using a risk of losing him completely.
“That would be a tragedy for Sri Lanka, undermining both a ODI as good as T20 teams.”
Sangakkara rubbished allegations which Malinga chose to give up Tests in sequence to magnify his appearance in a IPL.
“Had it not been for his knee complaint he would really wish to fool around Tests. you entirely await his preference as good as goal which as a outcome of it you see him personification for a couple of some-more years.”
Jayawardene pronounced since Malinga’s knee condition it was purposeless to risk him for five-day Tests.
“If he breaks down afterwards it will be bad for Sri Lanka. We wish him personification for us as prolonged as possible,” pronounced Jayawardene, who stepped down this month as vice-captain.
“Some people have criticised a decision, arguing which he is being selfish. This myopic evidence is really astray since which he obviously has a ongoing knee problem.
“If his career is finished by injury, who is starting to demeanour after him as good as his family?”
There has been no criticism from Sri Lanka Cricket upon Malinga’s Test retirement, with a house progressing which they have nonetheless to be strictly informed.
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