Sri Lankan pacer Lasith Malinga has give up Test cricket in a bid to lengthen his career in one-day internationals as well as Twenty20 matches. The paceman is personification for Mumbai Indians in a Indian Premier League.
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NEW DELHI (AFP) – Injury-prone Sri Lanka paceman Lasith Malinga upon Friday give up Test cricket in a bid to lengthen his career in one-day internationals as well as Twenty20 matches.
Malinga is personification for Mumbai Indians in a Indian Premier League as well as had not long ago done himself taken for Sri Lanka’s debate of England, attracting critique which he had selected to fool around for bar over country.
“In Jan this year we wrote a minute to Sri Lanka Cricket as well as expelled a matter to a media confirming which we programmed to reassess my Test destiny after a World Cup,” he pronounced in a statement.
“I motionless which we indispensable to have myself taken for Test cricket in an bid to lengthen my career as a inhabitant cricketer for Sri Lanka.
“Although we am amply fit to fool around both ODI as well as T20 cricket, we have a long-standing degenerative condition in my right knee which needs to be delicately managed.”
The 27-year-old Malinga, well known for bowling correct yorkers, bagged 101 wickets in thirty Tests with his slinging movement given creation his entrance opposite Australia in Darwin in 2004.
He took a three-year mangle from Test cricket until entrance behind to a format when he figured in a home array opposite India in 2010. He has 3 five-wicket hauls in a Test innings to his credit.
“I did try to lapse to Test cricket after a three-year deficiency final year following requests from a group government as well as a selectors, though it left me non-professional nursing serious knee suffering for dual months,” Malinga said.
“I have realised which a complicated effort of Test cricket, which requires a quick bowler to be means to play some-more than fifteen overs, infrequently upon uninterrupted days, could lead to permanent injury.
“I have delicately deliberate my options as well as have motionless which not personification Test cricket will assistance me grasp my idea of representing Sri Lanka in a 2012 World Twenty20 as well as a 2015 World Cup.”
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