{"id":4377,"date":"2018-01-30T15:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2018-01-30T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T09:52:19","slug":"lasith-malinga-retire-2019-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/lasith-malinga-retire-2019-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasith Malinga to retire after 2019 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Lankan bowler Lasith Malinga says that he will retire from international cricket after the 2019 Cricket World Cup.<\/h2>\n

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The fast bowler quit Test cricket because of a \u201clong-standing degenerative condition in the right knee\u201d in 2011, but he continued playing the shorter formats.<\/p>\n

One of the best fast bowlers to have ever played for Sri Lanka, Malinga isn\u2019t part of the 23 man squad for the tour to Bangladesh but was present at a special practice session with new coach Chandika Hathurusingha in Colombo.<\/p>\n

For the right arm pacer, the 2019 ICC World Cup is his next target, and if he does make it to England, that will be his swansong.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they pick me I\u2019m ready, but the reason for why I haven\u2019t been picked is what I\u2019m still waiting for,\u201d Malinga said. \u201cUsually it\u2019s a player who is 25 or 26 that needs to be rested because they still have a lot of cricket left in them. But for someone of my age, from what I know, there\u2019s really no purpose in being rested.<\/p>\n

Lasith Malinga is never short of sharing his impeccable knowledge to others. His fruitful guidance has helped Jasprit Bumrah ever so well that he has raised his bar to the highest level. However, Malinga says if any team approaches him in search of a mentor role, then he is ready to nod his head just because he wants to share his knowledge to others.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf someone calls me today and says \u2018Look, we would like to have you within our coaching team for the World Cup\u2019, I am ready to accept it. Not because of anything but I want to share my knowledge with others when I can,\u201d Malinga concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sri Lankan bowler Lasith Malinga says that he will retire from international cricket after the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The fast bowler quit Test cricket because of a \u201clong-standing degenerative condition in the right knee\u201d in 2011, but he continued playing the shorter formats. One of the best fast bowlers to have ever played for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[2097,3456],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-cricket-news","tag-lasith-malinga","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}