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17 Mar 2014 13:18 #183056 by chairman
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka stalwarts Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene have announced they will retire from international Twenty20 cricket after the World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh.

Both players led their country to the finals of the World T20, Sangakkara in 2009 in England when Sri Lanka lost to Pakistan and Jayawardene in 2012 in Sri Lanka when his team was beaten by West Indies.

"Right time for me to retire. Gives the selectors more time to build for next T20 WC," tweeted Sangakkara, 36. "Hope to leave with a win."

The batsman has played 50 T20 internationals for Sri Lanka, hitting 1,311 runs at an average of 32.77 and a strike rate of 120.

Jayawardene also 36 and a former captain, is Sri Lanka's leading run scorer in the format having hit 1,335 runs at an average of 31.78 with a strike rate of 134.17 from 49 T20 internationals.

Wisden India quoted Jayawardene as saying he too had decided it was time to go: "The rationale is pretty much the same as Sanga's," he said.
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17 Mar 2014 13:31 #183060 by Mail
About time, I say but brilliant players.

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17 Mar 2014 23:12 #183158 by Kyle
Yeah about time. T20s should be left to the younger generation, I suppose. Hope they can retire on a happy note :)

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18 Mar 2014 23:14 #183343 by Barbosa
pure class players

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19 Mar 2014 02:08 #183345 by tintiano
T20 is a format for the younger lot of players. While Sangakkara and Jayawardene are most certainly top-quality players, I doubt if they really have a lot to offer in T20 cricket. If they were announcing their retirement from test or ODI cricket, I would really have felt that Sri Lanka would miss them in a big way. In the shortest format, I am sure that the island nation has enough and more players to fill their boots. It's a joy to watch them grind away in test cricket though  ;D

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