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- Updated: August 27, 2016
Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has put Tillakaratne Dilshan’s contributions on par with those of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, ahead of Dilshan’s final ODI in Dambulla on Sunday. Dilshan was the fourth Sri Lanka batsman to 10,000 ODI runs, and he has the third-highest number of hundreds with 22.
“Dilshan has been an absolute brilliant servant for Sri Lankan cricket over the past 17 years,” Mathews said. “I think he has equally done the service that Mahela and Sanga did, and we’re going to miss him a lot. Unfortunately, he had called it a day. We respect that decision and the whole team wishes him the very best.”
Several former players have also delivered glowing appraisals of Dilshan’s career. Former team-mates Jayawardene and Sangakkara said Dilshan deserved a grand farewell on Twitter. Sangakkara was particularly complimentary, stating …
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