<p>Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara has announced that he will retire from Twenty20 Internationals after the conclusion of the ongoing ICC World T20 tournament in Bangladesh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 36-year-old Sangakkara, who has featured in all the five World T20 tournaments so far, said the event that got underway on Sunday in Bangladesh will be his last.<br /><br />“Ya, definitely without doubt this is my last World T20. I won’t be playing any T20 Internationals after this. It’s sad, but that’s the truth,” he was quoted as saying by ‘Sunday Island’.<br /><br />“It’s not the end of my T20 career though. I would like to play franchise-based T20s. Once your World Cup prospects are over you should give the next crop of players an opportunity. It’s a natural progression,” Sangakkara, who has played 50 T20 Internationals for Sri Lanka, scoring 1311 runs at an average of 32.77 and a strike rate of 120, said.<br /><br />The former captain, however, insisted that he would be keen to continue playing in the ODIs, at least till next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<br /><br />“Hopefully, I will be in form and my fitness stays and I am looking forward to it. There are so many ifs and buts in cricket. The 2015 World Cup is my immediate target.“I will have a chat with the selectors to see where the future lies,” he said.</p>
<p>Veteran Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara has announced that he will retire from Twenty20 Internationals after the conclusion of the ongoing ICC World T20 tournament in Bangladesh.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The 36-year-old Sangakkara, who has featured in all the five World T20 tournaments so far, said the event that got underway on Sunday in Bangladesh will be his last.<br /><br />“Ya, definitely without doubt this is my last World T20. I won’t be playing any T20 Internationals after this. It’s sad, but that’s the truth,” he was quoted as saying by ‘Sunday Island’.<br /><br />“It’s not the end of my T20 career though. I would like to play franchise-based T20s. Once your World Cup prospects are over you should give the next crop of players an opportunity. It’s a natural progression,” Sangakkara, who has played 50 T20 Internationals for Sri Lanka, scoring 1311 runs at an average of 32.77 and a strike rate of 120, said.<br /><br />The former captain, however, insisted that he would be keen to continue playing in the ODIs, at least till next year’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<br /><br />“Hopefully, I will be in form and my fitness stays and I am looking forward to it. There are so many ifs and buts in cricket. The 2015 World Cup is my immediate target.“I will have a chat with the selectors to see where the future lies,” he said.</p>