Lasith Malinga – A Cricket Legend in the Making, to retire after T20 World Cup

Malinga said that he would stop one-day internationals after the World Cup in England and Wales this late spring before calling time on his vocation following the Twenty20 competition, being played in Australia over October-November 2020.

"After the World Cup, my cricketing profession is finishing," the 35-year-old said after his side were beaten by 16 keeps running by South Africa in the second Twenty20 worldwide at SuperSport Park.

"I want to play in the T20 World Cup and then end my career."

Malinga expelled South African top-scorer Reeza Hendricks for 65 on Friday, his 97th T20 worldwide wicket. He is one shy of the world record of 98 held by Pakistan's Shahid Afridi.

Individual Information

Lasith Malinga is an expert cricketer, who was conceived on August 28, 1983 in Galle, Sri Lanka. He did his training at Devapathiraja College and later, went to Mahinda College in Galle. Lasith Malinga is an authority right-arm quick bowler with a one of a kind round-arm activity with which, he produces a great deal of pace. He is otherwise called "Slinger Malinga" in light of this impossible to miss activity.

Records:

*Only bowler in cricketing history to take four wickets in four successive balls in global cricket (versus South Africa March 2007).

*The first bowler in cricketing history to take three cap traps in One Day International cricket, taking his third in August 2011.

*Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews hold the most noteworthy run association for the ninth wicket in an ODI: 132 runs, against Australia in Melbourne in 2010. Malinga scored 56 Runs from 48 balls including six fours and two sixes; Mathews scored 77 keeps running off 84 conveyances including eight fours and one six.

*He is the main bowler with two World Cup cap traps, against South Africa in the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the other against Kenya in the 2011 Cricket World Cup.