Lasith Malinga played his last ODI coordinate for Sri Lanka on Friday against Bangladesh at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Malinga was instrumental in his last universal ODI coordinate likewise as he got 2 early wickets to shake the Bangladeshi opening batsmen. He completed with the figures of 3/28 and grabbed a wicket in his toward the end in ODI cricket. He had declared his retirement from worldwide ODI cricket during the Cricket World Cup and ensured his last match game was critical.
Malinga had officially quit playing Test cricket in 2011 to draw out his vocation. Presently the 35-year-old will just play his exchange T20 cricket as he harbors longs for playing cricket in the T20 World Cup in Australia in 2020.
Malinga is one of the best restricted overs bowlers in the historical backdrop of cricket with 338 wickets in only 219 innings. He is incredibly famous for his capacity to bowl steady yorkers while misleading the batsmen with a destructive slower conveyance. Presently as he abandons ODI cricket, here’s a gander at a portion of the mind boggling measurements and records of Malinga in the 50-over organization
1. Malinga (338) is the third-most elevated wicket taker for Sri Lanka in ODI history behind Muttiah Muralitharan (523) and Chaminda Vaas (399). Indeed, even at the as of late closed World Cup, Malinga grabbed the most wickets (13) for Sri Lanka.
2. Malinga additionally has the second-best strike-rate (32.4) for a Sri Lankan bowler behind just Ajantha Mendis.
3. Malinga is the lord of cap traps as he is the main bowler to take three cap traps in ODIs. Two of those cap traps have come at the World Cup, which is additionally a record. Alongside Wasim Akram, Malinga has taken a sum of 4 global cap traps.
4. Another record that Malinga holds is that he is the main bowler to take 4 wickets in 4 balls in worldwide cricket.
5. Malinga is third in the rundown of cricketers with most wickets in the historical backdrop of Cricket World Cup. Malinga has taken 56 wickets in 29 coordinates in the World Cup is behind just Muralidharan (68) and pioneer Glenn McGrath (71). He is, be that as it may, the quickest to achieve 50 ODI wickets in World Cups in 26 innings.
6. Malinga likewise has a batting record to his name as he holds the record scoring the most elevated ODI score for Sri Lanka at No. 10 position. Truth be told, Malinga is the main Lankan player to score 50 years at the position.
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