National player Shashikala Siriwardene is set to retire from all forms of international cricket. She announced that she would be retiring from international cricket following the T20 World Cup.
Hettimulla Appuhamilage Shashikala Dedunu Siriwardene. Also known as Shashikala Siriwardene, is a Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lankan women's cricket team in ODIs. She made her ODI debut in 2003 and her T20I debut in 2010.
She is the only woman cricketer to take 100 ODI wickets in ODIs for Sri Lanka. Also she is the only woman cricketer to take 100+ wickets as well as to score 1000+ runs in ODI for Sri Lanka. She is a former student of President's College, Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte.
Siriwardene was ranked No.6 in the ICC all rounder rankings, ahead of Sri Lanka T20I captain Chamari Atapattu, in the weeks before the 2020 T20 World Cup.
She is Sri Lanka’s second highest T20I run scorer, 413 runs behind Atapattu.
Siriwardene is also Sri Lanka’s leading T20I wicket-taker.
Ahead of the 2018 T20 World Cup, she was named as one of the players to watch and she finished the tournament as the joint-leading wicket-taker for Sri Lanka, with four in three matches.
After the tournament, she was named as Sri Lanka’s standout player by the ICC.
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