Gunathilaka, who stated that he has taken the resolution after evaluating all ingredients, hasn’t finished a Take a look at since 2018, with his eight appearances getting him 299 runs, two half of-centuries, and a profession-exclusively salvage of 61. He has bought an even bigger file in restricted-overs cricket.
Sri Lanka opener Danushka Gunathilaka
Sri Lanka’s aggressive opening batter, Danushka Gunathilaka, has made up our minds to retire from Take a look at cricket on the age of 30 to focal point on the white-ball formats, the country’s apex cricket physique stated on Saturday.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) stated the batter ”will now be specializing in the shorter formats”.
The enchancment comes shut on the heels of but every other 30-one year-mature batter, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, asserting his resolution to retire altogether from worldwide cricket and a day after the board lifted a one-one year bio-security breach suspension on Gunathilaka, Kusal Mendis, and Niroshan Dickwella with quick affect.
Sri Lanka Cricket has made up our minds to pick out the one-one year suspension imposed on Danushka Gunathilaka, Kusal Mendis and Niroshan Dickwella: from taking half in World Cricket, all over all three formats, with quick affect.
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— Sri Lanka Cricket (@OfficialSLC) January 7, 2022
Gunathilaka, who stated that he has taken the resolution after evaluating all ingredients, hasn’t finished a Take a look at since 2018, with his eight appearances getting him 299 runs, two half of-centuries, and a profession-exclusively salvage of 61. He has bought an even bigger file in restricted-overs cricket.
In 44 ODIs, he has scored 1520 runs at a median of 36.19, whereas in T20Is, he has 568 runs in 30 suits at a strike rate of 121.62.
The trio of Gunathilaka, Mendis, and Dickwella used to be handed a one-one year ban from worldwide cricket for a bio-security breach for the length of Sri Lanka’s tour of England final one year.
The ban additionally incorporated a six-month suspension from home cricket and a in point of fact very most sensible of roughly USD 50,000. Gunathilaka regularly ran into concerns with the SLC over disciplinary components. Since his worldwide debut in direction of the end of 2015, Gunathilaka has served three separate suspensions, the most contemporary being the one for breaching bio-bubble protocols.
