Rangana Herath

Rangana Herath announces limited-overs retirement:

Rangana Herath Sri Lanka's veteran spinner, reported his retirement from restricted overs cricket on Sunday (April 17), with a perspective to amplify his Test vocation. A long-lasting harm to both his knees had constrained him to quit a few restricted overs arrangement in the last couple of years.

"In the following eight months or thereabouts, we're planned to play something like 12 Test matches. I think resigning from the shorter organizations is the right move, since that will permit youthful players to be prepared for the following World Cup, and also bringing down my workload and giving me a chance to focus on Tests," Herath was cited as saying by Sri Lanka Cricket's (SLC) official media discharge.

The 38-year-old played 71 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and 17 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), stowing 74 and 18 wickets separately. His best exertion in constrained overs came against New Zealand in an unquestionable requirement win experience amid the fruitful 2014 World T20 crusade, where he packed away 5 for 3 while guarding an aggregate of 120.

The SLC recognized Herath's gigantic quality to the national side and wished him well for his future. "Sri Lanka Cricket wishes Herath only the best as he keeps on playing cricket in his picked discipline, and in every single future attempt.

"Herath has been a basic part of the Sri Lanka knocking down some pins munititions stockpile where his splendid exactness and inconspicuous variety in pace and flight made him a power to figure with both at home and away," the discharge expressed.

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