The International Cricketing Journey Of The Bowling Legend Lasith Malinga 🇱🇰:

Lasith Malinga is a name that will never be forgotten in cricketing history. A few days back, on 14th September, Lasith Malinga shocked the world by announcing his retirement. So in this post, we will be talking about the Yorker Kings’ career.

Early Life:

Separamadu Lasith Malinga was born on 28th August 1983 in Galle, Sri Lanka. He used to play cricket on sandbanks and coconut grooves in his village. His village used to be obsessed with cricket then ( I don’t know now because I don’t live in Sri Lanka nor I am Lasith Malinga’s friend).

Malinga studied in 3 schools. Mahinda collage Galle, Vidhyaloka Collage and  Vidyathilake Vidyalaya. He had his primary education in  Vidyathilake Vidyalaya, but started his cricket career in Vidyaloka College. Over here he had impressed the former Sri Lankan Cricketer, Champaka Ramanayake. Champaka Ramanayake had quickly made him join the Galle Career. Then Champaka made Malinga join Mahinda Collage. This is where Malinga’s career sky rocketed. Soon Malinga made his domestic career debut.

International Career:

Test:

Malinga made his Test debut on 1 July 2004 against Australia at the Mararra Oval in Darwin. He bowled really good in that Test match taking 6 wickets in that match. He got wickets of great batsman like Adam Gilchrist. So overall Malinga made a wonderful Test debut for SL.

He played 30 Test matches and he took 101 wickets in those 30 matches. He announced his retirement from Test cricket on April 22nd, 2011.

ODI:

Malinga made his ODI debut on 17th July, 2004 against UAE in ASIA CUP of that year.  During a match between Sri Lanka and South Africa in the 2007 CWC Malinga became the first player to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in ODIs. This was only the fifth hat-trick in World Cup history, the third ODI hat-trick for Sri Lanka and the 24th overall in ODI’s.

Malinga had a wonderful ODI career. He played 226 matches and he took 338 wickets! WOW that’s a lot of wickets. His best was 6/38 which he got against Kenya. His bowling average was 28.9. He retired from ODI cricket on 26th July, 2019.

T20:

Malinga made his T20 debut on June 15th, 2006 vs England. Malinga also took a Hatrick in 2017 against Bangladesh. I think we should have called him Hatrick king. He keeps on taking so many Hatricks.

Malinga had a pretty decent T20 career as well. Playing 84 T20’S for Sri Lanka he has taken 107 wickets, having an average of 20.8. He retired from T2O cricket on September 14th, 2021.

ICC WORLD CUPS:

The Yorker King has played in quite a few world cups. And every world cup he has played he has dominated the other team’s batsman. He keeps on taking Hatricks and keeps on bowling yorkers and keeps on taking wickets. Sometimes I feel that he is being little unfair to the other bowlers, because he keeps on taking all the wickets.

As I said above he has played quite a few world cups. So now we’ll be talking about few of those world cups.

2007 WORLD CUP:

In this world cup he was the first ever cricket player to take 4 wickets in 4 balls in world cup. Actually not even world cup he was the first ever player to take 4 wickets in 4 balls in ODI cricket. He achieved this milestone against South Africa in a losing effort. He played really good that world cup but unfortunately his team (SL) lost in the final against Australia.

2011 World Cup:

In this world cup he took a hatrick… again. Honestly I don’t know what to call him Yorker king or Hatrick king. He played really well in this world cup also. He had taken the hatrick against Kenya in the world cup. Again unfortunately Sri Lanka lost in the final against India.

2014 T20 World Cup:

Malinga became vice captain of the Sri Lankan Cricket Team for T2O cricket in 2012. He led Sri Lanka in the 2014 world cup after Dinesh Chandimal received a ban. And he led Sri Lanka to victory in the final against India

Let is all take a moment to thank Malinga for contributing so much to Sri Lankan cricket and entertaining us with all those fantastic yorkers and hatricks he has taken. Thank You Malinga. Enjoy Retirement.

Hey guys, hope you enjoy reading this post on the International Cricketing career of the bowling legend LASITH MALINGA:

Thank You!