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Sanath Jayasuriya set to retire
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He has been a great player for Sri Lanka, but he hasn't been in best of form recently so this was expected.
Sanath Jayasuriya is set to announce his retirement at the end of the Kandy Test.
According to a report in the Sunday Times, the Sri Lankan selectors gave him the option of playing a farewell Test and then quitting rather than being dropped. In the last two-and-a-half years he has scored only 497 runs in 15 Tests at an average of 19.88 with one fifty. His average, at one point nudging 50, slipped under 40 with his failure in the first innings of this Test.
Trevor Bayliss, Sri Lanka's coach, said: "He hasn't said anything to us at this stage. Obviously he is getting close, exactly how close we are not very sure."
Cricinfo
He has been a great player for Sri Lanka, but he hasn't been in best of form recently so this was expected.