Separadu Lasith Malinga , (Sinhala: ??????? ????? ?????? born August 28, 1983) is a Sri Lankan professional cricket player and former ODI and T20I captain for Sri Lanka. He holds his right arm quickly, usually used as a death bowler specialist, and is famous for his distinctive round action, sometimes referred to as a sling action, leading to his nickname, "Slinga Malinga" and "Malinga Slinga". Considered one of the greatest limited bowling players of all time, Malinga's unorthodox action and whipping a slower wicket is credited with much of his success.
He is best known for his ability to take wickets in a row, with yorkers swinging: he is the only bowler in the world who has two World Cup hat-tricks, the only bowler who has taken three hat-tricks in ODI and one- the only player to have taken four wickets in four consecutive balls in the form of any international cricket. On April 22, 2011, he announced his retirement from Test cricket. He bends around the speed of 140 km/h (87 mph).
He is the second highest goalkeeper in all Twenty20 International cricket after Shahid Afridi of Pakistan and the highest goalkeeper for Sri Lanka at Twenty20 International as well. Malinga is the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team who won the ICC World Twenty20 2014 and is part of the team that made the 2007 Cricket World Cup final, Cricket World Cup 2011, ICC World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20. He is the captain of Twenty20 International for Sri Lanka, until March 7, 2016, where Malinga resigned from the captain due to a continuous injury.
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Initial years
Malinga grew up in a simple state in Rathgama, a coastal village located 12 km northwest of Galle. He often plays cricket with friends in the sand bank and coconut grove on the riverbank in a cricket-obsessed village. His father, Separamadu Milton, is a retired bus mechanic working in the Galle depot. He has education in three schools, namely Mahinda College, Galle, Vidyaloka College, Galle and Vidyathilake Vidyalaya, Thiranagama. Malinga has a basic education in Vidyathilake Vidyalaya in Thiranagama, a school located near his village.
After passing the 5th Grade Scholarship exam in 1993, he entered Vidyaloka College, Galle for secondary education, where he started his cricket career. Here Malinga was discovered by a former Sri Lankan girlfriend, Champaka Ramanayake. Champaka, so impressed by Malinga's raw abilities, invited him to join the Galle Cricket Club. Champaka also helped him to join the first XI cricket team at Mahinda College, Galle. Joining Mahinda College was the turning point of his cricket career and he was assisted by some respectable Old boys. A brief attempt to make Malinga's actions more truthful leads to much reduced speed and declining accuracy. Malinga soon returned to his natural course successfully, and with great encouragement from Ramanayake.
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Style
Malinga's actions have attracted many comments. The reference text of cricket Wisden has noted that Maling's sending action is similar to "slinging". So the nickname is "Slinga Malinga". Malinga says that the unique round bowling action is the result of learning cricket exclusively with tennis balls. Usually, younger bowlers are encouraged to send the ball with their sleeves near the vertical to erase or reduce the direction variables.
Sir Viv Richards admired the impressive Lasith Malinga bowling during the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the Caribbean, saying that Lasith Malinga was the best thing that happened to Sri Lankan cricket after Aravinda de Silva.
International career
Cricket test
Malinga made his Test debut on July 1, 2004 against Australia at Marrara Oval In Darwin. He was soon successful, picking up six wickets in the match (Darren Lehmann twice, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Martyn, Shane Warne and Michael Kasprowicz) He was impressed by the friendliness of the Australian team in general, and in particular Adam Gilchrist who sought him out after the match to present him wrongly one stump match in the Sri Lankan dressing room.
He grew to become the fastest test taker of Sri Lanka and a regular member of both their International Exams and One Day. He has earned a reputation for troubled batsmen with his lively steps and well-directed drive. He regularly bends at speeds between 140 and 150 km/h (87-93 mph) and sometimes slightly faster. Over time he began to lose clocking speeds around 130-140 km/h. Slower fractures are also threatening. He stormed to the test spot after tearing up New Zealand's top sequence, helping Sri Lanka draw a series of trials on their 2006/07 tour in New Zealand. He announced his retirement from Test cricket on April 22, 2011 to extend his career in ODI and T20 cricket.
One Day Internationals
Malinga made his ODI debut in the opening match of Sri Lanka in the 2004 Asian Cup against the United Arab Emirates, becoming the 123rd player to do so. Easy to win the game with 116 runs, Malinga took the captain of the Emirate, Khurram Khan to finish the match with a 1/39 figure. Since then he has been a regular member of the ODI squad.
During the Cricket World Cup Super 8 2007 match on March 28 between Sri Lanka and South Africa, Malinga became the first player to take four wickets in four consecutive games on One Day International cricket. Needing five wins to victory and with five wickets in hand, Malinga handed the ball in the 45th round of the South African round. In the last two balls, he cleared Shaun Pollock and found Andrew Hall caught in front. In the next round, he pushed Jacques Kallis behind him, then bowed to Makhaya Ntini. It's only a fifth hat-trick in World Cup history, a third ODI hat-trick for Sri Lanka and a total of 24 in ODI. He almost took the last wicket when a ball shaved his stump. Despite the deadly spell of Malinga, however, South Africa went on to win the match with 1 wicket with 10 balls still remaining.
During the 2011 Cricket World Cup, Malinga took his second hat-trick in Sri Lanka's group stage match against Kenya. This makes it the first bowler to take two World Cup hat-tricks, and the fourth takes two hat-tricks on all One Day International cricket (alongside Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq and Chaminda Vaas). In August 2011, he managed to make a hat-trick again, against Australia, to become the first man to take three hat-tricks in ODI cricket .
Malinga takes the seven wicket goal in the ODI cricket and reaches 280 plus the current ODI wickets.
Twenty20 International
He was named an official event ambassador for the Twenty20 World Championship by the ICC.
Malinga was named vice captain of the Sri Lanka Twenty20 International team in October 2012. He captained the Sri Lanka Cricket Team in 2014 ICC World Twenty20 after Dinesh Chandimal received a ban. He managed to lead the team to win the world cup to become the first Sri Lankan captain to win the ICC World Twenty20. He is the highest goal taker for Sri Lanka in the T20Is with 80 wickets.
Injuries
After a tour of the West Indies, Malinga suffered a back injury and knee injury. With this, he did not participate in the New Zealand tour and tour of India, hoping that he will recover when 2016 ICC World Twenty20 begins. However, Malinga was appointed captain for the 2016 Asian Cup, where he can only play against the UAE, with a bowling performance winning the match. A knee injury supported him in the next game and Sri Lanka lost all matches due to Malinga's absence on the team. Sri Lanka announced its World T20 team with Malinga as captain, but injuries continuously resulted in Malinga to resign from captain and Angelo Mathews has been crowned captain in all formats. Though Sri Lanka feels that Malinga will recover for World Cup matches, his injury caused him to be ruled out of the Twenty20 squad. He returned home because of the bruised bone in his left knee.
The return of the international world
Malinga quit all domestic and international cricketers for a year after the T20I game against the UAE in March 2016. Because of this injury, Malinga lost the game against England, Australia and Zimbabwe Tri-series, where Sri Lanka was heavily involved in a limited number of defeats. more than cricket and down on the international rankings. Although he recovered from an injury in late December, Malinga was not available for the South African series after a dengue attack. Malinga was picked up for an Australian tour and played in a match against Prime Minister XI. His comeback game came against Australia on 17 February 2017, where he took two wickets and two catches. Sri Lanka won the game with 5 wickets at the end.
On April 6, 2017, during the second T20I against Bangladesh, Malinga took a hat-trick, becoming the second and fifth Sri Lanka overall to take a T20I hat-trick. With that, Malinga has taken 4 international hat-tricks, most by Sri Lankan players and along with Pakistan's Supreme Wasim Akram.
Malinga was admitted to the ODI squad for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy in June 2017. He played his comeback match against South Africa on June 3, 2017 in the Champions Trophy swimsuit. But his return is not good at all, where he finishes the spell goal less by giving 57 runs and putting catches and sloppy on the field as well. Sri Lanka suffered a massive loss in the match with 96 finalists.
During the Indian ODI series, captain Upul Tharanga was suspended two ODI due to the slowness rate. Therefore, Chamara Kapugedera was appointed as the stand-in captain of the two ODIs. However, he aggravated his back injury during the third ODI and ruled out the series. For the fourth ODI, Malinga was appointed captain of the stand-in. In that match, Malinga took his 300th ODI goal by firing Virat Kohli. Despite its historic milestone, India scored 375 games and Sri Lanka only scored 207 games and lost 4-0 in the series. India won the fifth game of the series and whitened Sri Lanka for the second consecutive time in a 5-match series.
Since his comeback, Malinga is not entirely effective with the ball and also with fielding. However, he did not announce his immediate retirement and said he needed to play international cricket for Sri Lanka until the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Since his return, Malinga averaged 62.30 for each of his 10 goals, and went to six more, due to his ineffective bowling. , Malinga was omitted from the ODI squad for the 2017-18 Pakistan series in the UAE.
Due to a continuous injury as he was not considered for selection by the Sri Lankan cricket team in the 2018 Nidahas Trophy. In the series, Sri Lanka suffered heavy losses against Bangladesh and was eliminated from the finals as well.
Sri Lanka Cricket told Malinga to play in domestic competitions and then he will be selected for the upcoming international tour. But, due to the coaching responsibilities in Mumbai India, Maliga also missed the 2018 Super Provincial One Day Tournament.
Domestic Twenty20s
Malinga plays for the Indian Premier League Indian (IPL) Mumbai Indians team. He is a bowler strikes them in this format and is a leading bowler in the competition. World record holder Sachin Tendulkar and former Indian captain Mumbai described Malinga as an important driving force in India's Mumbai game plan after retiring from head-beatter and captain Shaun Pollock, who represented the team in the first season. In the first game for Indian Mumbai in the fourth season, he gets 5 wickets against Delhi Daredevils, limiting them to just 95. His best bowling figure is 6/7 for Melbourne Stars against Perth Scorchers in December 2012, just six long distance taken by the Australian Big Bash League.
He won the Purple Cap award (mostly wickets) in the fourth season of the Indian Premier League with 28 scalps in 16 matches. Throughout the tournament, he led the Mumbai Indian attack from the front and was instrumental in many victories.
Lasith Malinga chose the Mumbai Indians at Southern Express at the CLT20 cricket tournament.
In the 2011 Champions League Twenty20, he was the highest goal-taker in the tournament and won a golden goal for this performance and won the award for the tournament player. Malinga also hit a lot of things.
In 2018 IPL auction, Malinga was not bought by the Indians of Mumbai because of its ineffective bowling in the past. However, on February 7, 2018, Malinga was named Mumbai Indian bowling mentor ahead of 2018 IPL. He has played 127 matches for India Mumbai in IPL and T20 Champions League and is the highest goal taker for a franchise with 179 scalps at an economic rate of 6.88.
In May 2018, he was named one of ten tent players for the first edition of the Global T20 Canada cricket tournament. On 3 June 2018, he was selected to play for the Montreal Tigers in draft players for the tournament premiere edition.
Recordings
- Just a bowler in cricket history to take four wickets in four consecutive balls in international cricket (vs South Africa March 2007).
- The first and, to date, only a bowler in cricket history to take three hat-tricks in One Day International's cricket, taking all three in August 2011.
- Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews held the highest partnership for the 9th goal in ODI: 132 games, against Australia in Melbourne in 2010. Malinga scored 56 Runs from 48 balls including six fours and two sixes; Mathews scored 77 runs of 84 deliveries including eight fours and one six.
- Age 56 is the fourth highest ODI score by batsman number 10 in ODI history and he has the highest ODI score score for Sri Lanka when hit at number 10 (56), he is also the only Sri Lankan who scores fifty without 10th position in ODI.
- He is the only bowler with two World Cup hat tricks, against South Africa at the 2007 Cricket World Cup and the other against Kenya in the Cricket World Cup 2011.
- The Best Twenty20 figures in Australia are domestic and 2 in the world.
- Since April 2017, Malinga with 317 wickets in 232 games is the second highest goal in all Twenty20 matches.
- Malinga has the largest number of wickets (154) in the Indian Premier League.
- Since January 19, 2017, Malinga still holds the best figure in BBL history by 6/7.
- Fourth Sri Lanka to reach 300 ODI wicket, after Muralitharan, Vaas and Jayasuriya. He is the fifth fastest bowler to reach the landmark (203 games).
- He has the distinction to recognize 80 runs or more in ODI cricket (8 ODI matches), at most by any bowler
Train a career
in February 2018, he was appointed as a bowling mentor to the Indian Indian team even though Shane Bond served as a bowling coach for the team in the 2018 IPL season. The Indian Mumbai faction revealed that Malinga will provide a supportive role as a mentor and will be part of the coaching staff ahead of the IPL season 2018. Before the decision was made by the Indians of Mumbai, Malinga was released from India's Mumbai team for the 2018 IPL auction due to a bad bowling show in the 2017 IPL season.
References
External links
- Lasith Malinga on Instagram
- Lasith Malinga on Facebook
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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