Lasith Malinga who bades goodbye from one-day cricket on 26th Friday ... gets ready to settle down in Australia

Lasith Malinga who bades goodbye from one-day cricket on 26th Friday ...gets ready to settle down in Australia

Super bowler Lasith Malinga who leaves one-day cricket next 26th is prepared to migrate to settle down with his family, cricket news sources have reported. His final game would be the first one-day match in the tournament with the touring Bangladesh team. After world cup tour in England Malinga has left for Australia with members of his family. 

Malinga who was drawing plans for future activities from his Australian home sometime back had
called chairman of selection committee over the phone and has told him he will be able to participate in the Bangladesh tournament and that he is able to come to Sri Lanka today (22). There is news that after settling down in Australia, Lasith Malinga is getting prepared to engage as a coach there. 

Though the selection committee had requested him to play in the entire tournament, Malinga has informed that he would stop playing any further after the first match. He has bagged 335 wickets in 219 innings and has become the third biggest wicket-taker when Mutthiah Muralidaran (523) and Chaminda Vas (399) had preceded him. Malinga is one among seven Sri Lankans who took 100 wickets or more in cricket and he was someone who decided to give up Tests games because of a problem in his knee during his professional career. Malinga was a 'find' of bowling-coach of Sri Lanka at a time when Malinga was playing softball cricket in Rathgama, Galle during his schooldays and he became the focus of attention because of his non-traditional bowling process. Subsequently he became a yorker-bowler who even scared gts out of technically accurate batsmen in the world. That then became the icon of his career in cricket. 

He took up captaincy instead of Dinesh Chandimal in the one-day tournament played in New Zealand towards the beginning of this year. However, because of "an internal conspiracy" he was not named as captain of the world cup. Malinga's departure is indeed a great blow for the game of cricket in Sri Lanka. Whatever it is, this is what selection committee chairman Asantha de Mel said by expressing his ideas regarding Malinga's departure: "After Malinga's retirement it would be a good opportunity for us to look for fast bowlers in the next generation and nurture them".