{"id":37750,"date":"2021-02-23T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37750"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:13:15","slug":"sri-lankas-tharanga-retires-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37750","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Tharanga retires from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Upul-Tharanga.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Colombo:\u00a0Sri Lanka&#8217;s former opening batsman Upul Tharanga on Tuesday announced his retirement from international\u00a0cricket\u00a0after a 15-year career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tharanga, 36, has played 31 Tests, 235 one-day internationals and 26 Twenty20 matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe it is time for me to bid farewell to my international\u00a0cricket\u00a0career,&#8221; he said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have decided to retire from international cricket <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f3cf.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xTocDusW8A\">pic.twitter.com\/xTocDusW8A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Upul Tharanga (@upultharanga44) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/upultharanga44\/status\/1364144648063619074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His last Test appearance was in August 2017 against India at Pallekele where he scored 12 runs in a match Sri Lanka lost by an innings and 171 runs. He has scored 1,754 Test runs, 6,951 in ODIs and 407 in T20s.<\/p>\n<p>In December, he featured in a local league tournament.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/sri-lanka-questions-tharanga-former-selector-over-world-cup-fixing-probe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sri Lanka questions Tharanga, former selector over World Cup fixing probe<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Colombo:\u00a0Sri Lanka&#8217;s former opening batsman Upul Tharanga on Tuesday announced his retirement from international\u00a0cricket\u00a0after a 15-year career. Tharanga, 36, has played 31 Tests, 235 one-day <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=37750\" title=\"Sri Lanka\u2019s Tharanga retires from international cricket\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37752,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37750\/revisions\/37752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}