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Malinga to retire from ODIs after 1st game against Bangladesh

Sri Lanka pace ace Lasith Malinga will retire from one-day international cricket after the first ODI of the three-match series against Bangladesh, skipper Dimuth Karunaratne said here on Monday

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Sri Lanka pace ace Lasith Malinga will retire from one-day international cricket after the first ODI of the three-match series against Bangladesh, skipper Dimuth Karunaratne said here on Monday.

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Karunaratne said the 36-year-old former captain would only take part in the first match to be played here on July 26.

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"He is going to play the first match. After that he will retire. That's what he told me. I don't know what he told the selectors, but he told me that he would play only one match," Karunaratne said.

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Malinga was initially named in the 22-man Sri Lanka squad for the series. The matches will be played on July 26, July 28 and July 31 at the R. Premadasa Stadium here.

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With 335 wickets in 225 ODIs, Malinga is Sri Lanka's third highest wicket-taker in ODI cricket after Muttiah Muralitharan (523) and Chaminda Vaas (399).

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