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Dilshan bids adieu to cricket
COLOMBO: Moving up to open the innings for Sri Lanka changed his career but it was a decision he should have taken two years earlier, Tillakaratne Dilshan said after
COLOMBO: Moving up to open the innings for Sri Lanka changed his career but it was a decision he should have taken two years earlier, Tillakaratne Dilshan said after retiring from international cricket following Friday’s Twenty20 loss against Australia. Inventor of the famous “Dilscoop” ramp shot, Dilshan played the last of his 87 Tests in 2013 before quitting the longer format with 5,492 runs and 39 wickets to his name. The 39-year-old signed off from the shorter formats with over 10,000 runs and 22 centuries in 330 ODIs and 80 T20 matches. He is one of only six men to have scored a hundred in all three formats of the game. “I think I should have taken the decision to move up to open earlier,” Dilshan said before the match. “I made that decision in 2009 but I should have made that a couple of years (before) to (break) more records.”
