Cricket - Milestones beckons for Malinga in World Cup swansong


  • Cricket
  • Monday, 27 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: Cricket - Sri Lanka v England - Second one-day international - Dambulla, Sri Lanka - October 13, 2018. Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga celebrates after taking the wicket of England's Liam Dawson (not pictured). REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Lasith Malinga's once-express pace has dropped as Father Time has caught up with the right-arm quick, but his guile should propel him to a few individual milestones at his fourth and final Cricket World Cup.

Malinga, who turns 36 in August, is on the cusp of breaking into the all-time top-10 one-day international wicket takers, with his tally of 322 just one behind former team mate Sanath Jayasuriya.

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