Sri Lanka pace ace Lasith Malinga will retire from one-day international cricket after the first ODI of the three-match series against Bangladesh, skipper Dimuth Karunaratne said here on Monday.
Karunaratne said the 36-year-old former captain would only take part in the first match to be played here on July 26.
“He is going to play the first match. After that he will retire. That”s what he told me. I don”t know what he told the selectors, but he told me that he would play only one match,” Karunaratne said.