A case of Test v Twenty20, not Country v Club
Sandeep Dwivedi, writing in the Indian Express , says Lasith Malinga has merely chosen a format of the game that suits his frail physical condition
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Sandeep Dwivedi, writing in the Indian Express, says Lasith Malinga has merely chosen a format of the game that suits his frail physical condition. Malinga, Dwivedi says, decided that he no longer wanted to risk injury and suffer the solitary confinement of his house as he has in the past.
Malinga definitely had his reasons to give up the flannels for good. He was fit enough to bowl four hours, that too slit in two-three spells, with a sufficient break between games, but he wasn’t sure if his knee could take the workload of the tough five-day routine of a Test match in England. But despite their long experience of playing the game, the Lankan administrators failed to get this cricketing logic. They took it personally. It was a rejection, they believed.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo