{"id":52470,"date":"2021-09-16T05:39:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T05:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=52470"},"modified":"2021-09-16T05:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T05:39:50","slug":"lasith-malinga-announces-retirement-from-all-forms-of-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/lasith-malinga-announces-retirement-from-all-forms-of-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasith Malinga announces retirement from all forms of cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka\u2019s 2014 T20 World Cup winning captain, has announced his retirement from T20Is, marking his retirement from all forms of cricket on September 14, 2021.<\/li><li>The 38-year-old had already retired from Test cricket in 2011 and then from the ODIs in 2019.<\/li><li>He played 30 Tests, 226 ODIs and 84 T20Is for Sri Lanka in which he took a total of 546 wickets (101 in Tests, 338 in ODIs and 107 in T20Is) across all formats.<\/li><li>Malinga holds the record for most hat-tricks in international cricket.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka\u2019s 2014 T20 World Cup winning captain, has announced his retirement from T20Is, marking his retirement from all forms of cricket on September 14, 2021. 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