“I’m still not decided [on retirement],” she said in East London, where Sri Lanka will play South Africa in the first of three ODIs tomorrow. “We can talk about it later. At the moment, I’m focused on the [South Africa] ODIs and World Cup qualifiers. Let’s see in the future.”
Athapaththu, who is 34 and is due to play her 100th ODI for Sri Lanka in the upcoming series, raised concerns over her playing future with a couple of cryptic Facebook posts over the last week. On Thursday, after Sri Lanka secured a historic, first T20I series win over South Africa, Athapaththu put up pictures of herself and the trophy and included the words “last duty for my country” in the caption. She has since removed that phrase from the post.
On Sunday, she posted another picture and wrote: “Review DRS,” with a winking emoji. “Some decisions are very difficult. But at some point in life we have to make such decisions.” She included a heart, the Sri Lankan…
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