{"id":74903,"date":"2019-11-21T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=74903"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:35:26","slug":"malinga-does-u-turn-on-retirement-says-wants-to-continue-for-2-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/malinga-does-u-turn-on-retirement-says-wants-to-continue-for-2-more-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Malinga does u-turn on retirement, says wants to continue for 2 more years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sri Lanka captain and veteran pacer Lasith Malinga has had a rethink on his decision to retire after next year\u2019s Twenty20 World Cup, saying he can carry on for another two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malinga, in March, had stated that he wanted to retire after the Twenty20 World Cup scheduled in October-November in Australia next year. But the 36-year-old, who captains Sri Lanka in the shortest format, now says he can play on beyond that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The veteran said he is waiting to hear from Sri Lanka Cricket on whether he would be leading the side in the Twenty20 showpiece. \u201csaid for the World Cup I have to be lead there but you never know in Sri Lanka,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only bowler with 100 T20 International wickets said Sri Lanka needed continuity in leadership for a lasting change of fortunes after a period of slump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSri Lanka are lacking that skilful bowler, they lack those consistencies. We can\u2019t get one year, one and a half years, all fixed, it might be that we need to get patience, maybe two or three years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConsistency is very important. I feel whoever is doing the next selection have to understand that people , they have to be there. If he\u2019s on the bench, nobody can learn,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka captain and veteran pacer Lasith Malinga has had a rethink on his decision to retire after next year\u2019s Twenty20 World Cup, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74905,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74903\/revisions\/74905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}