Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has retired from 50-over and Twenty20 internationals in order to carry on playing test matches, the country's cricket board said on Sunday.
Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath celebrates after taking the wicket of West
Indies' Denesh Ramdin (not pictured) during the final day of their
second test cricket match in Colombo October 26, 2015. REUTERS/Dinuka
Liyanawatte
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has retired from 50-over
and Twenty20 internationals in order to carry on playing test matches,
the country's cricket board said on Sunday.
The 38-year-old took 74 wickets in 71 one-day internationals
and another 18 in 17 T20 matches for the island nation, shouldered the
burden of the slow bowling attack following the retirement of spin great
Muttiah Muralitharan in 2011.
"Every cricketer has to stop at the right time, I feel it's
time to make room for fresh talent to be groomed with the 2019 World Cup
in view," Herath was quoted as saying in a statement from Sri Lanka
Cricket.
Arguably the left-arm spinner's best effort came at the 2014 World
Twenty20, where he took five wickets for just three runs as Sri Lanka
successfully defended a 120-run target in a must-win match against New
Zealand en route to the title.
"Sri Lanka Cricket wishes Herath nothing but the best as he
continues to play cricket in his chosen discipline, and in all future
endeavours," the board said.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly in Mumbai; editing by Patrick Johnston)
- Reuters
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