Sri Lankan legend Angelo Mathews announced his retirement from Test cricket on Friday, May 23. The 37-year-old will play for the last time in the white jersey in the first match of the Test series against Bangladesh starting on June 17. He has also confirmed that he will continue to represent Sri Lanka in ODIs and T20s.
Angelo Mathews made an emotional post on social media
Angelo Mathews announced his retirement on social media and wrote on social media,
“𝑴𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 – 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆, 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 17 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒓𝒊 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒋𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒚.
𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒓𝒊 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒂 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝑻𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒅-𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚.”
Played 118 tests for Sri Lanka
Angelo Mathews represented Sri Lanka in 118 Test matches. He made his debut against Pakistan in Galle on July 4, 2009. Mathews scored 8167 runs in 210 innings at an average of 44.62, which included 16 centuries and 45 half-centuries. At the same time, Mathews also took 33 wickets in 86 innings at an average of 54.48.
How is the performance in ODI and T20?
Angelo Mathews has played 226 ODIs for Sri Lanka so far, in which he has scored 5916 runs at an average of 40.52. At the same time, he has also taken 126 wickets in 163 innings at an average of 32.62 and an economy of 4.63.
Talking about T20 cricket, he has scored 1416 runs in 90 matches at an average of 27.76 and a strike rate of 120.52. At the same time, he has also taken 45 wickets in 72 innings at an average of 30.87 and an economy of 7.13.
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